Secrets of the Brain: Suggestion, Hypnosis, Physiology of Thinking

Vladimir Bekhterev — an outstanding Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, neurologist, physiologist; the founder of reflexology in Russia; academician. He was the founder of the psycho-neurological institute in Saint Petersburg — the first center in the world for the scientific development of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology. His contemporaries said about academician Vladimir Bekhterev that only two beings know the anatomy of the brain — God and Bekhterev. He was the first to penetrate into the holy of holies of man — his consciousness. He was able not only to heal from the most serious diseases but also to manipulate people through suggestion and hypnosis. Bekhterev conducted hundreds of unique hypnosis experiments, after which people miraculously revived and rid themselves of their harmful habits: alcoholism, smoking, drug addiction. He explained the mystery of illusions and hallucinations — from ghosts and stigmas to wizards and UFOs. He understood how Christ healed hopelessly sick people. He exposed cultists, predictors of "end of the world" and magicians posing as clairvoyants. He analyzed why wars flare up and how such leaders as Joan of Arc, Peter the Great, and Napoleon come to be. He researched the most fantastic phenomenon — the transmission of thoughts over a distance.