Talk:Post-hypnotic suggestion

The Encyclopedia Brittanica Eleventh Edition is from almost a century ago. I would guess that whatever it has to say about post-hypnotic suggestion is pretty far from current scientific understanding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.98.195 (talk • contribs) 2008-09-23T12:30:35

Badly in need of rewrite
This article is atrocious, I had to double-check that I hadn't been duped into a different domain from Google.

These unintelligible paragraphs are of seriously dubious scientific validity, and are poorly cited at that. Eleventh Edition?? Seriously. Let's fix this.RebelBodhi (talk) 00:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Scientific basis
Was the 1911 Britannica based on actual observation of "patients", or did it merely repeat the orthodoxy of the times? I ask this, because in the period when it was being written (late 1800's to early 1900's) even Pasteur's germ theory of disease had not even gained much currency. Doctors were resisting the idea of comparing what their theories predicted with the real world. --Uncle Ed (talk) 15:50, 20 November 2011 (UTC)