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...part of the investigation, Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a New York psychiatrist and hypnotist, put some of the surviving patients into trances and let the FBI question them. At least one, under hypnosis, suddenly seemed to recall forgotten details of his near fatal day. Richard Neely, 61, a retired auto worker who was being treated for cancer of the bladder, said that he remembered experiencing unexpected breathing difficulties and calling out to a passing nurse of Asian origin, who turned and fled at his cry. Later, shown photographs of the hospital's nurses, he picked out one of the Filipino...
...hypnotist, Erickson often reinforces his control over his subject by challenging him to wake up. For example, he might say: "I want you to try to open your eyes and find that you cannot." Similarly, performing therapy without hypnosis, Erickson will say: "I want you to go back and feel as badly as you did when you first came in with the problem, because I want you to see if there is anything from that time that you wish to recover and salvage." Thus, his directive to the patient to relapse actually prevents a relapse...
...Hypnotist Damon Reinbold raised the bluish ball of glass into the light. "You are drifting down," he intoned. "Farther and farther into a deep, sound and relaxing hypnotic sleep." Lower and lower drooped the heads of the two rock musicians, David Teegarden, 27, and Skip ("Van Winkle") Knape, 28. When their chins touched their chests, Damon, as he is known professionally, nodded to the engineers. The recording session was about to begin...
...should blackmail them. I did that with one husband. We had a terrific argument and I said I would only forgive him if he'd give up his three packs a day. Now I have a new beau and I'm sending him to a hypnotist to help him give...
Divorced. Lana Turner, 50, yesteryear's sweater girl; and Ronald Dante, 51, nightclub hypnotist who was Turner's seventh husband; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...