Suggestion and its Role in Social Life

V. M. Bekhterev, Lloyd H. Strickland, Dobreva-Martinova Tzvetanka

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AldineTransaction
30 December 2015

Psychology; Social, group or collective psychology

Vladimir Mikhailovitch Bekhterev was a pioneering Russian neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychologist. A highly esteemed rival of Ivan Pavlov, his achievements in the areas of personality, clinical psychology, and political and social psychology were recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. However, when his version of reflexological doctrine ran afoul of official Soviet ideology in the 1920s his work was banned and his influence suppressed through the dispersal of his many colleagues and disciples. Bekhterev himself died in 1927 under mysterious circumstances. This translation of Suggestion and Its Role in Social Life is a significant instance of intellectual and cultural restoration. It marks a starting point of Bekhterev's lifelong endeavour to relate his clinical observations and philosophy of science to problems of the social world.

Bekhterev's investigation reviews and explains the many conflicting positions in the social and scientific thought concerning the nature and power of suggestion. He takes pains to differentiate the process from persuasion and hypnosis, and discusses suggestion and autosuggestion in the waking state, examining their effectiveness on feeling, thought, and behaviour. He then discusses the destructive consequences of the process—violent crime, suicide, witchcraft, and devil-possession hysteria— in a wide variety of contexts important in the Russia, Europe and North America of the period.

Bekhterev presents a structural model of the mind, including both conscious and unconscious realms, and the phenomena of suggestion without awareness; in doing so he anticipated much present-day work on preconscious influence. Suggestion and Its Role in Social Life is a landmark study in collective psychological research that may lead to revisions in histories of social psychology. It will be read by psychologists, sociologists, and social historians.

By: V. M. Bekhterev
Edited by: Lloyd H. Strickland, Dobreva-Martinova Tzvetanka
Imprint: AldineTransaction
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781412857062
ISBN 10: 1412857066
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 30 December 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

V.M. Bekhterev (1857-1927) was director of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg and founded its Psychoneurological Institute. Lloyd H. Strickland is emeritus professor of psychology at Carleton University, USA. He edited the English translation of Bekhterev's Collective Reflexology.

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Suggestion and its Role in Social Life

V. M. Bekhterev, Lloyd H. Strickland, Dobreva-Martinova Tzvetanka

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