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The phenomena of hysterical conversion in clinical neurology indicate that both the sensory and motor functions of the central nervous system are almost totally amenable to control by psychic processes — and that given the appropriate psychopathology, anaesthesias and palsies can appear without any evidence of organic disease or trauma. In research on the relationship between mind and body, it is therefore of some significance that literally all such hysterical conversion symptoms of a neurological nature can be precisely reproduced by direct suggestion under hypnosis (DSUH) in entirely healthy, deep-trance hypnotic subjects.
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Black, S. (1969). Some Physiological Mechanisms Amenable to Control by Direct Suggestion under Hypnosis. In: Chertok, L. (eds) Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Hypnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88002-5_2
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