Word: crasilneck
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Last week, coached by Psychologist Harold Crasilneck, the Southwestern team was using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
...Psychiatrist James McCranie, Psychologist Harold B. Crasilneck, Surgeons Morris J. Fogelman, Ben Wilson and Jerry Stirman...
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