Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 69
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.It was in no small measure [Coué's] wholehearted devotion to a self-imposed task that enabled him, in less than a quarter of a...
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Emile Coué conducting a clinic in the parlour of his house at Nancy (1923).
Stott, W.R.S. (1922),"The Apostle of Auto-Suggestion at Work in his Garden 'Clinic' at Nancy".
Émile Coué and his patients in his garden at Nancy (1923).
Nach Coué - "Ich werde von Tag zu Tag in jeder hinsicht hübscher und hübscher." (Franziska Schlopsnies, 1922).
1923 comic strip mocking Coué
Memorial bust of Coué (detail),St Mary's Park, Nancy.
Monument to Coué,St Mary's Park, Nancy.About this person
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.It was in no small measure [Coué's] wholehearted devotion to a self-imposed task that enabled him, in less than a quarter of a century, to rise from obscurity to the position of the world’s most famous psychological exponent. Indeed, one might truly say that Coué sidetracked inefficient hypnotism [mistakenly based upon supposed operator dominance over a subject], and paved the way for the efficient, and truly scientific.
