“Conversion disorder has been associated with hypnotic susceptibility for over a century and is currently still believed to be a form of autohypnosis.”

“The part that hypnosis and autohypnosis, conscious and unconscious, has played here cannot easily be overestimated.”

“The doctor sees him dim when he thinks intently about a girl named Lois, whom he knew one enjoyable summer in Buffalo The doctor sends him to a famous clinic in Baltimore, where his trouble is diagnosed as autohypnosis.”