Word: hypnotherapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whip up that enthusiasm, Akers stresses "positive attitude" and "personal accountability," and went so far as to import a hypnotherapist from Seattle to instruct the Longhorns in "deep relaxation and positive suggestion which eliminates the negative." Says Akers: "The players are committed. You don't come to Texas unless you're a competitor and committed. Mental concentration, though, is harder than physical preparation." As his players looked on first with awe, then growing respect, Akers and his assistants put in grueling 14-hour days. Their dedication proved contagious. Says Interested Observer Royal: "He is willing...
Therapists use various methods: standard talk techniques, meditation and hypnosis, either with individuals or in mass sessions that sometimes smack of revival meetings. In many cases, the discipline sounds more entrepreneurial than scientific. Ralph Grossi, a Pittsburgh hypnotherapist, travels to ten clinics in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where he treats some 25 people a week with past-lives therapy at $75 per session. An Arizona couple, Dick and Trenna Sutphen, who say they first met and married thousands of years ago, not only operate group seminars but also market tape recordings enabling patients to treat themselves at home. Typically...