Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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To a frightened, hysterical patient, for example, the poker-faced pedodontist offers no sympathy, only a businesslike proposal: "Today we're going to look at your teeth, and then you're going home." When the unbelieving child opens his mouth to cry, the dentist quickly says, "Good. We...
Gasping for breath, unable to eat or sleep, the 60-year-old man lay in a Scottish hospital moaning: "The end is near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become...
Within ten minutes, the patient was in a deep trance. Carefully and repeatedly, Psychiatrist Sinclair-Gieben murmured: "Now you will find the wheezing stops- your breathing becomes free and easy." Last week, in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Sinclair-Gieben reported the dramatic result: "The wheezing stopped instantaneously. Hypnosis was...
Dr. Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair...