self-suggestion

noun

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Stigmatisation.—The production of blisters or other cutaneous changes on the hands, feet, or elsewhere, by suggestion or self-suggestion.

Nor is it always necessary that the mind of the patient should be influenced by another person; self-suggestion is at times equally efficacious.

Suggestion exerted by the circumstances is about the same as what is often called "auto-suggestion" or "self-suggestion".

I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.

You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.

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