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More than half the cases reported cured by hypnotic treatment were found by one investigator to have had their symptoms temporarily lulled only, the diseased condition or bad habit returning in a worse form than before within a few weeks, a few months, or at least within one-and-a-half years. Thus the patient merely deceived himself about being cured and unwittingly allowed the disease to continue its ravages unchecked by other treatment; hence its later aggravation.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 123