Couéismn.
/ˈkuːeɪɪz(ə)m/ A system of psychotherapy by auto-suggestion, usually of an optimistic nature.
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1923 Daily Mail 30 Apr. 7 Couéism is auto-suggestion. It is the power of making people heal themselves through their subconscious self.
1926 Public Opinion 9 July 30/3 Large numbers of sufferers..were cured by Couéism.
Derivatives
ˈCoué n. Couéism.
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1923 G. Mayo (title) Coué for children.
1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. ii. v. 282 Following the Coué system, I scratched on the wall: ‘Every day, in every way, things are getting better and better.’
ˈCoué v. (transitive) to produce or bring into a certain state by Couéism.
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regress1949
primal1971
rebirth1976
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. x. 285 Fleur's wonderfully calm; she does Coué night and morning.
1928 Daily Express 27 July 10/2 He has Couéd himself into a yearly fit of depression and lassitude.
1928 Sunday Disp. 2 Sept. 17/1 An imaginary kink. A kink that is ‘Coué'd’.
1959 C. Bush Case of Careless Thief viii. 97 We seemed to be at a dead end, and you can't Coué yourself out of an impasse like that.
ˈCouéist n. one who practises Couéism, a follower of Coué.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > 19th or 20th century
Brunonian1785
Thomsonian1853
naturopath1901
Pasteurian1920
Couéist1922
1922 Punch 21 June 501 An echo of the heat-wave. Ardent Couéist. ‘Quite cool, quite cool. Cool as blazes, cool as blazes.’
1928 Sunday Disp. 23 Dec. 9/2 ‘We have had the course translated into seven languages,’ said one of the Coueists.
Couéˈistic adj. pertaining to Couéism.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [adjective] > relating to psychotherapy > other types
transpersonal1905
client-centred1931
Rogerian1946
Couéistic1950
Morita1953
1950 L. Fischer in R. Crossman God that Failed 208 A domestic version of ‘Socialist realism’ intended..to serve as a kind of Couéistic propaganda.
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