Word: berillon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-bearded André Berillon, backed by the 41 textbooks on hypnosis and psychotherapy which he has written in his 87 years, offered a panacea by hypnosis. Known as the Doctor of Fear because of his pervasive pessimism, Berillon sat hunched in his eerie consulting room, a tight, dusty black suit stretched on his bony frame, a black skullcap pulled over his forehead and a purple velvet tie flapping about his scrawny neck. The floor was littered with bric-a-brac and jagged pieces of skulls. Intricate, whirring machines on the table set colored lights blinking. They were calculated...
Never Again! Yes, Berillon muttered, by hypnotism he could cure "almost anything." Could he cure a drunkard that way? Replied Berillon: "I treated an alcoholic only once. I put him to sleep and in his trance made him hold up his right hand and swear never again to use it to touch a glass containing alcohol...
...ardent disciple of Berillon, Lucie Guillet, offered the second message of hope. The science she-and she alone-practices, she calls poetico-therapy: the cure, by poetry, of nervous disorders, or physical ailments arising from them. Madame Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...
...bring to nervous therapeutics a new power-the poetic fluid," Madame Guillet announced. Her science is based on Berillon's theory of cerebral balance. This theory contends that, in the perfectly adjusted human, the right half of the brain, containing will power and reason, exactly balances the left half, which encompasses man's sentimental and mystical qualities. When one side greatly outweighs the other, psychological disorders result...
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