1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
SUGGESTION. By the older British writers on psychology the words " suggest " and " suggestion " were used in senses very close to those which they have in common speech; one idea was said to suggest another when it recalled that other to mind or (in the modern phrase) reproduced it. Modern studies in mental pathology and hypnotism (q.v.) have led to the use of these words by psychologists in a special and technical sense. The hypnotists of the Nancy school rediscovered and gave general currency to the doctrine that…
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- Vol. 26, pp. 48-49