" Unquestionably influenced by the ideas of Christian Science, this Nancy apothecary insisted that every one of us can, by autosuggestion, cure himself. Advancing a stage beyond Mary Baker Eddy, he declared that there was no need for a healer to intermediate between the patient and his suffering, for the patient could do his own suggesting. In fact, said Coué, the patient always does do his own suggesting, and the belief in the need for an outside healer is but one more illusion to be dispelled. But, like Mary Baker Eddy, Coué with his doctrine of autosuggestion, is, in the end, only paying homage to the power of the human mind influenced by what some have termed faith or will, but by what he preferred to speak of as imagination. "

― Stefan Zweig ,