Word: hypnotherapist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that doctors nowadays do not think of it as a treatment in itself, but as a handy tool to help them give other, conventional forms of treatment. Typically, under "eye fixation," the patient goes into a trance and soon tells about his Doubles. Before he is "awakened," the hypnotherapist tells him whether or not ie is to remember, on awakening, what he has said. If the decision is in favor of remembering, there will then be a conscious discussion of the problems. Sometimes the business of banishing symptoms of illness may be done by suggestions made during the trance period...
...case. In his studies of psychosomatic conditions, he had taken an interest in hypnosis. Eighteen months ago, in a white-painted hospital room in East Grinstead, Sussex, a dozen skeptical doctors watched as Dr. Mason talked the boy into a hypnotic trance. It took ten minutes. Then Hypnotherapist Mason said again & again: "Your left arm will clear." (He had begun with a particular part of the body to make the test more precise...