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Ămile CouĂ©
French pharmacist
Ămile CouĂ© (born Feb. 26, 1857, Troyes, Fr.âdied July 2, 1926, Nancy) was a French pharmacist who in 1920 at his clinic at Nancy introduced a method of psychotherapy characterized by frequent repetition of the formula, âEvery day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better.â This method of autosuggestion came to be called CouĂ©ism.
An apothecary at Troyes from 1882 to 1910, Coué in 1901 began to study under Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault and Hippolyte Bernheim, leading exponents of hypnosis. Although stressing that he was not primarily a healer but one who taught others to heal themselves, Coué claimed to have effected organic changes through autosuggestion.
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