Coué

[koo-ey]

noun

1. Émile 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.

Coué

/ ˈkuːeɪˌɪzəm, kue /

noun

1. Émile (emil). 1857–1926, French psychologist and pharmacist: advocated psychotherapy by autosuggestion

Other Word Forms

• Couéism noun

Example Sentences

Among the fleeting obsessions Allen catalogs are “the sudden and overwhelming craze for Eskimo Pie” that made the price of cocoa beans go up by half; the rage for the positive-thinking guru Émile Coué; the obsessive news coverage of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen; the popularity of the novelty song “Yes! We Have No Bananas”; crazes for the foxtrot, the crossword puzzle, mahjong, and, of course, Charles Lindbergh.

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Coué’s work ran deeper than is commonly understood and warrants rediscovery.

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Affirmations have their origins in the work of the nineteenth-century French pharmacist Emile Coue, a forerunner of the contemporary positive thinkers, who coined the one that remains the most famous: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

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"Enough—with bowsy Coue maund Nace, Tour the Patring Coue in the Darkeman Case, Docked the Dell, for a Coper meke His wach shall feng a Prounces Nab-chete, Cyarum, by Salmon, and thou shalt pek my Iere In thy Gan, for my watch it is nace gere, For the bene bowse my watch hath a win, &c."

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Colonel Olcott himself was a Buddhist, and moreover laid claim to certain powers of healing, which I should imagine, in so far as they were effectual, were a kind of faith healing; he went beyond M. Coué, as he declared that he had healed a blind man!

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