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Also known as Couéism, Coueism, Emile coue, Emile Coué, Emile Coue, Coué, Coué method, Coue

French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)

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Born
1857
Died
1926
Works
10

Top works

  • Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
  • Oeuvres
  • My method, including American impressions
  • Self mastery through autosuggestion
  • Self Mastery

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Quotes

  • Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux.
  • Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is as old as the world.It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of man on the earth. In fact autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power […].
  • When the imagination and willpower are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
  • You have in yourself the instrument of your cure.
  • Power of auto-suggestion known in the Middle Ages. The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought. The human being individually is also entirely governed by his own thoughts, good or bad. The powerful action of the mind over the body, which explains the effects of suggestion, was well known to the great thinkers of the Middle Ages, whose vigorous intelligence embraced the sum of human knowledge.
  • Contrary to the generally accepted theory the will is not the invincible force it is claimed to be; in fact, whenever imagination and will come into conflict it is always imagination that triumphs. Try to do something while you are repeating: "I cannot do it," and you will see this truth confirmed. The mere idea of inability to accomplish a thing paralyzes the will power.

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Key facts

Born
( 1857-02-26 ) 26 February 1857, Troyes , Second French Empire
Died
2 July 1926 (1926-07-02) (aged 69), Nancy , France
Occupations
Pharmacist; psychologist
Spouse
Lucie Lemoine (1858–1954)

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Émile Coué
date of birth
1857-02-26
date of death
1926-07-02
birth name
Émile Francisque Exupère Coué
name in native language
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie
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Émile Coué
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Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie ( French: [emil kue də la ʃɑtɛɲʁɛ]; 26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) 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.

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