Talk:Autosuggestion
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Can somebody please provide references for this article? And the status of the concept in the science of psychology. Is there any empirical research that supports the existence of autosuggestion? To me it sounds like pseudo science.Andries 09:03, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"pseudoscience" label; "subconscious mind"
Suggestion, suggestibility, and hypnosis have been studied quite a bit in mainstream psychology and medicine. A quick check through an EBSCO aggregation found several psychological and medical journals discussing autosuggestion. An couple of examples pulled at random are Yankauer, "The therapeutic mantra of Emile Coue," 42(4) Perspectives in Biology & Medicine 489 (Summer 1999); Faber, "Suggestion: Metaphor and meaning," 32(1) Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 16 (Jan. 1996).
I don't think we should hastily assign the label "pseudoscience." But I'm not entirely comfortable with using what strikes me as a casual term ("subconscious mind") without some elucidation and critique of the psychological theory that underlies this term.
Techniques of autosuggestion are demonstrably quite useful, from a practical point of view. Some practitioners believe that hypnosis is essentially guided autosuggestion.
- I agree with my own socks above (because I wrote the foregoing myself, but forgot to sign off the right way)65.223.141.108 00:40, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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