Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lloyd H. Strickland
Foreword to the Second Edition
V. Bekhterev
Foreword to the Third Edition
V. Bekhterev
1 Different Views on the Nature of Suggestion
2 The Definition of Suggestion
3 Suggestion and Persuasion
4 Suggestion in the Hypnotic State
5 Suggestion in the Waking State
6 The Importance of Faith
7 Unintentional Suggestion and Mutual Suggestion
8 Concerning the Suggestion of Thoughts
9 Paths of Influencing One Another through Suggestion
10 Collective or Mass Illusions and Hallucinations
11 Inalterable Hallucinatory Sensations and the Importance of Auto-Suggestion
12 Suggestion as a Factor in Mass Self-Destructive Acts of the Russian Sectarians, and Suicide Epidemics
13 Murder and Robbery Epidemics
14 Epidemics of Convulsions in History
15 Witchcraft and Devil-Possession Epidemics
16 Hysterical and Nervous Debility Epidemics
17 Other Psychopathological Epidemics of a Religious Variety
18 The Paranoiac Malevannii as a Culprit in a Distinctive Psychopathological Epidemic
19 The Malevannism Epidemic
20 The Jehovah Psychopathological Epidemic
21 The Tatar Psychopathological Epidemic in Kazan Province
22 The Supanevo Psychopathological Epidemic in Orel Province
23 The Novogrud Epidemic and the "Pavlovka Slaughter"
24 Sectarian Collectivities and Epidemics
25 A Chinese Epidemic of the I-Ho-Ch'uan Sect
26 A Canadian Psychopathological Epidemic among Russian Dukhobors
27 The Epidemic Dissemination of Mystical Doctrines
28 A Free Love Epidemic
29 Panic among People and Animals
30 Psychic Epidemics during Historic People's Movements
31 Financial Speculation Epidemics
32 The Importance of People's Collectivities for the Spread of Psychic Epidemics
33 The Importance of Suggestion for Social Groups
Index
Biography
V. M. Bekhterev
