autosuggestion
- n a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
- Seabrook's theory: witchcraft (black magic) is potent, can kill by autosuggestion, just as psychotherapy (white magic) can rid folk of fancy-induced but very real ills.
- His friends explained it was because he had been kept from doing his yatayoga (breath-control and autosuggestion exercises) by swarms of visitors at his house.
- The reappearance of these hairs after the grafting operation certainly cannot be ascribed to autosuggestion, to which certain critics have ascribed other phenomena that follow .