Émile Coué
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (; 26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.
::"It was in no small measure [Coué's] wholehearted devotion to a self-imposed task that enabled him, in less than a quarter of a century, to rise from obscurity to the position of the world’s most famous psychological exponent.""Indeed, one might truly say that ''Coué sidetracked inefficient hypnotism [mistakenly based upon supposed operator dominance over a subject], and paved the way for the efficient, and truly scientific''." — J. Louis Orton.
Coué's method was based upon the view that, operating deep below our conscious awareness, a complex arrangement of 'ideas', especially when those ideas are ''dominant'', continuously and spontaneously suggest things to us; and, from this, significantly influence one's overall health and wellbeing. ::We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which, when we handle it unconsciously is often prejudicial to us.
If on the contrary we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, it gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape … from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness, whatever the conditions in which we may find ourselves.(Coué, 1922b, p. 35.) Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Coué, Émile, 1857-1926
Published 1922New York : Malkan Pub. Co., 1922.1 online resource (127 p.)Center for Research Libraries
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Published 1923Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1923.xx, 201 p. : port. ; 20 cm.