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...British doctors described last week an extraordinary case of the medical use of hypnosis, in which the patient held himself in unnatural and seemingly most uncomfortable positions for a total of seven weeks, with nary a complaint. The case history, as reported by Psychiatrist Denys Kelsey and Surgeon John N. Barron in the British Medical Journal: a man of 24 had lost part of his right foot in an accident; to help repair the damage, skin was to be grafted in two stages-first from his abdomen to his left forearm, then to the foot. The surgeons feared that...
...months he signed up only 78 members, half of them in the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel plant, which Reuther decided to strike. "We needed drama," he later explained. "We had a big Polish gal who had fainted on the assembly line. We assigned her to 'faint' again. Someone else was to shut down the assembly line." Next day the Polish girl fainted on schedule, the switches were pulled, and the cry arose: "Strike! Strike!" Soon the plant's 5,000 men were milling around Reuther, who delivered a rousing speech while an anxious manager tugged at his coatsleeves...
...married woman of 28 was more remarkable because she insisted that although she had borne two children, she knew nothing of the "facts of life." Dr. Kelsey admits the scientific possibility that she may have been suffering from hysterical amnesia. However, he says: "I am quite sure she had no knowledge of [the biological details of] conception." Under hypnosis: "She soon regressed to a scene in which she felt she had just been born. She was choking from something wound tightly around her neck. She had no idea what this could be. I asked her to trace it. Her hand...
...bachelor of 25 suffered from two obsessions: he could not don a garment which had to be pulled on over his head, and could not work successfully with his hands. He, too, recalled unpleasant experiences in the womb. His mother told Dr. Kelsey about his birth: the head had been delivered with only a midwife present, and then his shoulders caused an obstruction. "Hence the infant remained, with just his head born, for an hour or so until the doctor arrived." Though the mother insisted that she had never told the patient about this, he re-enacted his birth difficulties...
Concludes Dr. Kelsey: "It is my belief that these so-called fantasies are in fact the reliving of events which were experienced and appreciated and promptly repressed." And he accepts the prophecy of Psychiatrist Nandor Fodor: "Prenatal psychology may shatter the last fetters with which scientific materialism has bound our minds...