ABSTRACT
Suggestion is the awakening of like mental attitude by means of inner imitation. The imitation by which a suggestion is adopted presupposes a higher mental development than purely physical imitations. Without exception mothers exercise the strongest suggestive influences; what they consider beautiful or ugly, right or wrong, appears so to the child as well. Cure by suggestion plays a special role in every nursery in the healing of children's many minor aches and pains from falls, knocks, scratches and pinches. The people surrounding the child continually assume attitudes in the form of judgments, feelings and resolves, which they make known either in word or deed. Apart from age, there is much individual variation in suggestibility. The quality of suggestibility depends greatly upon age. Since susceptibility to suggestion requires a certain mental growth, it cannot possibly exist in the earliest stages of life.
