{"product_id":"2940011927270","title":"SUGGESTIBILITY","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by William James\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Suggestion And Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eII. The Classification Of Suggestions And Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Evidence Of Normal Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Conditions Of Normal Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eV. The Law Of Normal Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eVI. The Conditions Of Abnormal Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eVII. The Nature Of Abnormal Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eVIII. The Law Of Abnormal Suggestibility\u003cbr\u003eIX. Suggestibility And The Waking Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A.\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM JAMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am glad to contribute to this book of Dr. Boris Sidis a few words of introduction, which may possibly gain for it a prompter recognition by the world of readers who are interested in the things of which it treats. Much of the experimental part of the work, although planned entirely by Dr. Sidis, was done in the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, and I have been more or less in his confidence while his theoretic conclusions, based on his later work in the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals, were taking shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe meaning of personality, with its limits and its laws, forms a problem which until quite recently had to be discussed almost exclusively by logical and metaphysical methods. Within the past dozen years, however, an immense amount of new empirical material had been injected into the question by the observations which the \"recognition\" by science of the hypnotic state set in motion. Many of these observations are pathological: fixed ideas, hysteric attacks, insane delusions, mediumistic phenomena, etc. And altogether, although they are far from having solved the problem of personality, they must be admitted to have transformed its outward shape. What are the limits of the consciousness of a human being? Is \"self\" consciousness only a part of the whole consciousness? Are there many \"selves\" dissociated from one another? What is the medium of synthesis in a group of associated ideas? How can certain systems of ideas be cut off and forgotten? Is personality a product, and not a principle? Such are the questions now being forced to the front―questions now asked for the first time with some sense of their concrete import, and questions which it will require a great amount of further work, both of observation and of analysis, to answer adequately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile many writers are seeking to fill the gap, and several books have been published seeking to popularize the new observations and ideas and present them in connected form. Dr. Sidis' work distinguishes itself from some of these by its originality, and from others by the width of its scope.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068332753136,"sku":"2940011927270","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011927270_p0.jpg?v=1763551404","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011927270","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}