Abstract
Two common mental phenomena, hypnosis, and schizophrenia, are discussed and compared. A concept of the mechanism of development of schizophrenia is offered : that schizophrenia is a suggestive phenomenon analogous to hypnosis; that it results from the unconscious and perhaps oonscious conflicts and forces present in the schizophrenic; and that these forces continuously influence the critical faculty, or ego, until it is partly or completely subdued. The result is the picture which we commonly call schizophrenia.

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