Émile Coué is considered the pioneer of Conscious Autosuggestion, although his techniques come from authors from previous centuries. Since the second half of the 19th century, he taught the importance of * affirmations to transform the vital state * of human beings.
Coué was an apothecary, pharmacist and psychotherapist. He taught and disseminated Autosuggestion as a therapeutic method and facilitated numerous healings, the testimonies of which were compiled in his books (in French). * Coué * explored original and novel paths within modern psychology: he was a forerunner of behavioral psychology and of positive thinking, as well as an assiduous experimenter of the placebo effect.
Considered by Charles Baudouin as representative of a Second School of Nancy, Coué treated many patients in groups and free of charge.
Émile Coué's books in english
- Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
- How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion
- The Miracle Within
- Conscious Autosuggestion
- Autosuggestion : My Method
- Some Notes On The Journey To Paris In October 1919
- A Day In The Clinic of Emile Coue
- Letters From Patients Treated By Coue’s Methods