autosuggestion
noun
suggestion arising from oneself, as the repetition of verbal messages as a means of changing behavior.
autosuggestibility
-
a word derived from
autosuggestion.
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The more we recognize the myriad symptoms in the hysteric patient as products of the emotional instability, of autosuggestibility and of inhibition, the more we understand the almost miraculous result of psychotherapeutic treatment.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
