Professor C. G. SELIGMAN :
' Ritual and Healing '
IN HIS TALK last week Professor Seligman showed how far the mind can influence the behaviour of the body. He explained how paralyses can be produced not only by suggestion but were also frequently the result of shell-shock during the War.
Professor Seligman will describe tonight such a case of shell-shock, and will give examples of strange rites performed by the Polynesian races of the Pacific, by natives of Ceylon and by Dervishes in Egypt. He will describe a case of self-induced anesthesia on the part of an Indian Sadhu
(Holv Man) and, most astonishing ot all, a Maori's death by suggestion.