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Liebeault (The Nancy School)
Ambrose-Auguste Liebeault advanced the theories of Abbe Faria, stating that
hypnosis was a natural state brought about by suggestion. Strongly influenced
by the work of James Braid, Liebeault continued in his tradition of hypnosis as a
therapeutic tool. A very famous visitor to the Nancy School was Sigmund
Freud, who was later to explore some of the claims of hypnosis, while never
actually arriving at an affirmation of it as a therapy. Emile Coue was to study
there extensively and is the next historical figure in our chronology of the
development of hypnosis.
Emile Coue
In this student of Liebeault’s Nancy School, we see the evolution of hypnosis
from its consignment to the fringes of the scientific world, to taking its place as a
facet of psychotherapy. Emile Coue developed the idea of “optimistic” auto-
suggestion, treating many people using this method and quite successfully,
without charging for his services.
You’ll have heard the phrase: “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and
better”. This was the cornerstone of Coue’s method and served as a foundational
auto-suggestive tool for his patients. Coue prescribed that these words be said at
regular intervals throughout the day, as many as twenty times per day to obtain
the full effect of the affirmative statement. He also believed that it was most
important to repeat these words at the beginning and also at the end of each day. 
In a manner of speaking, it’s a psychoanalytic “Shema Israel” for those seeking

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to better themselves.
Coue believed that his patients had the power of healing within themselves and
that the root of that self-healing power was a strong conscious will. He firmly
believed, however, that subconscious knowledge could be employed through
acts of imagination on the part of his patients. He thought of himself as more a
guide, than a healer, believing that auto-suggestion could actually alter the fabric
of our respective realities.
Through his explorations of hypnosis as a therapeutic tool, Coue confirmed the
growing suspicion among practitioners of the time, that no one could be
hypnotized without their consent and co-operation. Like Braid, he insisted that
hypnosis was entirely dependent on the subject and not the practitioner. He also
believed that patients, by conscientiously replacing their negative thinking
around illness with positive thinking and repetitive auto-suggestion, were the
authors of their own healing (so long as that healing was within reason and did
not extend to limbs growing back, or other farfetched hope for outcomes).
At the root of Coue’s assertions was the belief that, for the method of auto-
suggestion to work, the patient had to be invested in what was being suggested,
through the active application of the will. For example, a lingering belief on the