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Definition of Posthypnotic suggestion
1. Noun. A suggestion that is made to a person who is hypnotized that specifies an action he will perform (usually in response to a cue) after he has awakened.
Definition of Posthypnotic suggestion
1. Noun. A suggestion, given to a hypnotized person, to perform some action after awakening, especially in response to a cue. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Posthypnotic Suggestion
Literary usage of Posthypnotic suggestion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rest, Mental Therapeutics, Suggestion by Francis Xavier Dercum (1903)
"posthypnotic suggestion.—A suggestion may manifest itself in various ways in relation
... The hallucinations that accompany the posthypnotic suggestion are ..."
2. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly by William Jay Youmans (1896)
"The possibilities of posthypnotic suggestion would seem at first glance to ...
Again, when the emergence of the posthypnotic suggestion does not affect the ..."
3. Mind and Health, with an Examination of Some Systems of Divine Healing by Edward Ebenezer Weaver (1913)
"posthypnotic suggestion is a suggestion given in hypnosis, ... Moll says the
longest time of the continuance '">f posthypnotic suggestion as recorded by ..."
4. On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Münsterberg (1908)
"Experiment proves that all this is entirely possible, and that posthypnotic
suggestion thus plays in literature a convenient role of secret agency for ..."
5. An Elementary Psychology: Suggestions for the Interpretation of Human Life by Daniel Edward Phillips (1913)
"The large application of the posthypnotic suggestion now points toward moral and
physical health conditions. As we shall later see, it is an important ..."
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