Coué

[ koo-ey ]

noun

1. É·mile [ey-, meel], 1857–1926, French psychotherapist.

Coué

/ ˈkuːeɪˌɪzəm; kue /

noun

1. CouéÉmile18571926MFrenchSCIENCE: psychologistMEDICINE: pharmacist Émile (emil). 1857–1926, French psychologist and pharmacist: advocated psychotherapy by autosuggestion

Derived Forms

• Couéism, noun

Example Sentences

Among the fleeting obsessions Allen catalogs are “the sudden and overwhelming craze for Eskimo Pie” that made the price of cocoa beans go up by half; the rage for the positive-thinking guru Émile Coué; the obsessive news coverage of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen; the popularity of the novelty song “Yes! We Have No Bananas”; crazes for the foxtrot, the crossword puzzle, mahjong, and, of course, Charles Lindbergh.

From Slate

Coué’s work ran deeper than is commonly understood and warrants rediscovery.

From Time

Affirmations have their origins in the work of the nineteenth-century French pharmacist Emile Coue, a forerunner of the contemporary positive thinkers, who coined the one that remains the most famous: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

From Salon

"Enough—with bowsy Coue maund Nace, Tour the Patring Coue in the Darkeman Case, Docked the Dell, for a Coper meke His wach shall feng a Prounces Nab-chete, Cyarum, by Salmon, and thou shalt pek my Iere In thy Gan, for my watch it is nace gere, For the bene bowse my watch hath a win, &c."

From Project Gutenberg

Colonel Olcott himself was a Buddhist, and moreover laid claim to certain powers of healing, which I should imagine, in so far as they were effectual, were a kind of faith healing; he went beyond M. Coué, as he declared that he had healed a blind man!

From Project Gutenberg