Self‑Suggestion Collection: Change Your Life (PDF)
Suggestion is magic in action. No one can deny its effects. In the past it was used in rituals and prayers; today suggestion, mental suggestion, autosuggestion, positive affirmations — whatever name you give them — are supported by modern science. Most of our thinking and belief systems come from early conditioning.
In this collection, I have gathered books about suggestion. Suggestion has been used in religion, politics, and advertising, even to control opinions.
So why not use this vulnerable part of the mind to transform our lives and thoughts, creating a personal and useful reality?
As Marcus Aurelius said: “The soul is dyed by the color of its thoughts.”
Contents of the book
Henry Harrison Brown’s Not Hypnotism but Suggestion (1906), a spiritual‑psychological text arguing that the mind’s power lies not in trance but in conscious belief. Brown’s tone is metaphysical, showing how suggestion can shape destiny through thought.
Edward Barrett Warman’s Suggestion (1907) follows with a practical approach — how suggestion operates in everyday life, education, and persuasion. Warman’s work bridges the mystical and the pragmatic, making mental influence accessible to ordinary readers.
Then comes Julian Ochorowicz’s Mental Suggestion (1891), one of the earliest scientific studies of telepathic and psychological influence. Ochorowicz, a Polish psychologist, treated suggestion as a measurable phenomenon, anticipating later research in parapsychology and subconscious communication.
William Walker Atkinson’s Suggestion and Auto‑Suggestion (1909) popularized these ideas for a mass audience. Atkinson’s style is motivational and philosophical, teaching readers to use mental control for success and self‑development — a precursor to modern self‑help literature.
Clinical and Therapeutic Development
Also in the collection we move into the medical and therapeutic domain.
Albert E. Davis’s Hypnotism and Treatment by Suggestion (1909) presents hypnosis as a legitimate clinical tool, describing how suggestion can treat nervous disorders and psychosomatic illness.
Henry Sumner Munro’s A Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics, Applied Hypnotism, Psychic Science (1900) expands this into a full practitioner’s manual. Munro combines hypnotic technique with moral psychology, showing how belief and imagination can heal.
Albert von Schrenck‑Notzing’s Therapeutic Suggestion in Psychopathia Sexualis (1899) is a specialized study applying suggestion to sexual psychology. It’s controversial but historically vital — one of the first attempts to treat psychological conditions through mental influence rather than punishment or repression.
George W. Jacoby’s Suggestion and Psychotherapy (1912) integrates these methods into modern psychotherapy, emphasizing the therapeutic alliance and the patient’s belief as central to healing.
Scientific and Pedagogical Refinement
Charles Baudouin’s Suggestion and Autosuggestion (1920) systematizes Émile Coué’s ideas into a psychological and educational framework. Baudouin’s “Nancy School” approach treats autosuggestion as a disciplined mental exercise — the conscious repetition of positive ideas to reprogram the subconscious.
Émile Coué’s Self‑Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (1922) is the heart of your collection. Coué’s famous formula — “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better” — transformed suggestion into a universal method for self‑improvement. His work shifted the focus from external hypnotic influence to internal self‑belief.
Finally, Robert H. Thouless’s The Control of the Mind (1927) brings scientific rigor to the field. Thouless examines habit formation, willpower, and mental discipline, connecting autosuggestion with experimental psychology and education.
The book in the file. Not arranged
1. Suggestion by William Walker (7.53 MB)
2. Not Hypnotism but Suggestion by Henry Harrison Brown (3.44 MB)
3. Suggestion by Edward Barrett Warman (4.33 MB)
4. Mental Suggestion by Julian Ochorowicz (12.62 MB)
5. The Control of the Mind by R. H. Thouless (1927) (5.71 MB)
6. Self‑Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Émile Coué (13.69 MB)
7. Suggestion and Psychotherapy by George W. Jacoby (16.33 MB)
8. Hypnotism and Treatment by Suggestion by Albert E. Davis (31.48 MB)
9. A Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics, Applied Hypnotism, Psychic Science by Henry Sumner Munro (19.43 MB)
10. Therapeutic Suggestion in Psychopathia Sexualis by Albert von Schrenck‑Notzing (14.16 MB)
11. Suggestion and Autosuggestion – A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School by Charles Baudouin (23.23 MB)