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1re édition (1889), VII + 758 pages
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Recensie Crabtree

1237. Liégeois, Jules.
De la suggestion et du somnambulisme dans leurs rapports avec la jurisprudence et la médecine légale. Paris: O. Doin, 1889, viii + 758 pp.

Liégeois, an adherent of the Nancy school of hypnotism, was more interested in the forensic than the physiological aspects of hypnotism. Following the techniques of Bernheim, Liégeois experimented with suggestion and its implications for personal responsibility on the part of the hypnotized subject. He discovered that fifteen to twenty percent of his subjects could be placed in a somnambulistic state, in which they were extremely susceptible to hypnotic and posthypnotic suggestion. While his subjects were somnambulistic, Liégeois was able to create all sorts of hallucinations and induce various degrees of amnesia. He also experimented with suggestion in the waking state, obtaining striking results. Liégeois carried out other experiments with hypnotic suggestion, discovering that he was able to get subjects to carry out suggestions at a distance in space (by using the telephone) and at a distance in time (finding that suggestions could be executed long after they were given). Liégeois’s experimentation with criminal suggestions were imaginative and bold, at times crossing beyond the boundaries of human decency. He succeeded in inducing hypnotized individuals to commit what they believed were criminal acts and discovered that, when awakened, they could experience complete amnesia for those actions. He concluded that it is possible for one person, through hypnotic suggestion, to induce another to commit criminal acts which are contrary to the conscience of the hypnotized person. In these cases, the person who made the suggestions should be considered the responsible person and the hypnotized subject should be exonerated. To obtain realism in his experiments, Liégeois seemed ready to go to great lengths, sometimes showing little concern for the dignity or distress of his subjects. Nevertheless, Liégeois’s work was extremely helpful for forensic psychologists and retains its value today.

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Zoekwoorden
hypnose, somnambulisme, strafrecht, psychiatrie, juridische aansprakelijkheid, hypnotische suggestie, posthypnose, geheugenverlies, Bernheim, Nancy-school, medische psychologie, crimineel gedrag