Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into thinking I was a liberal. The rude awakening occurred less than a year ago, when a Negro writer and his family sought an apartment in my building and were turned down. I had met him. He was bright and a gentleman. Yet I didn't lift a finger to help him. That's all changed now." In California, Real Estate Dealer Richard S. Hallmark quit his job in protest over the commonly accepted methods of restricting Negro house buying. "I had never sold to a Negro family in my life, but it grated on my conscience...
Lowering the Barriers. Once he has his patient hypnotized, Psychiatrist Richard A. Kunin, 31, works with the system of "ideomotor responses" (finger signals to indicate answers and reactions) developed by Obstetrician David B. Cheek, a fellow San Franciscan. Dr. Cheek finds that a mere nod or shake of the head during hypnosis is a relatively conscious effort that can cloud what the subject is recalling; finger signals, sometimes so slight that the psychiatrist can perceive them only as the tensing of a tendon on the back of the hand, work at a deep, subconscious level, and do not interfere with...
...relax in the same manner any time he chooses. At the next session, Dr. Kunin says: "Turn your thoughts to a pleasant scene-a mountain, a beach or a woodland-and picture it to yourself. See yourself there. When this is in your mind, let your 'Yes' finger lift...
...good enough for psychotherapy. When the patient has pictured the pleasant scene of his choice, Dr. Kunin asks him to recall a previous occasion when he was in a similar situation, and to describe it, along with his feelings about it. If the therapist interrupts with questions, the finger lifts are sufficient answers, and they do not break the chain of the patient's associations...
...rehearse what he will do to draw its sting. "If we ask an alcoholic to project himself into a picture where he is in a drinking situation," says Dr. Kunin, "he can link his 'No' response with all his visual images of self-deterioration." The simple finger-lifting device then becomes a means by which the patient can call up such images himself in time of need. The maneuver, says Dr. Kunin, can give him aid and support, so that he can refuse the drinks that an oversolicitous host is pressing him to accept, while further talk...