Visceral manifestations of personality.

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Evidence favors the supposition that the unconscious image of a visceral condition, and the will to produce that condition, may occasionally be successful. This is substantiated by: the testimony of some patients with mild symptoms that they seemed to occur as "an answer to a wish"; the fact that if anyone who feels an internal sensation, for example who feels a bit faint, says to himself, "I am fainting, I want to faint," this occurrence is likely to be precipitated; the results of hypnotic experiments which have shown that in a few subjects almost any physiological condition may be produced; the experiments of Hudgins which showed that by repeated exercises of conditioning the pupil could be made to contract when the subject repeated under his breath the word "contract"; and the reports of the control that Indian Yogins are able to exert over their physiological processes. The physician must learn to read in the mechanics and chemistry of the body the subterranean permutations of the mind, and by appropriate methods bring them to light and so dispel them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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