Word: hypnotist
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...time it appears that Maurice will come down on the side of sexual conformity. He tries to yield to Clive's advice, vows to marry, and at one point visits a hypnotist for 'correction'. But at a crucial time on Clive's estate, Maurice spends the night with a young gamekeeper, Alec Scudder. There follows a period of suspicion between the two; Alec threatens blackmail, and Maurice is afraid to meet again. But a crisis between them turns into a mutual confession of love, and as the novel ends, they are planning to live together. Alec having given...
...last packages of cigarettes from our nerveless hands. We are to spend almost two weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
Moment of Confrontation. The speeches begin as coffee is poured. We are going to have "fun," says Dr. William J. Nemon, hypnotist and medical director, while we learn not to care about cigarettes. Arbitrarily, we are divided into groups, and I size up my leader, Dr. Gordon F. Derner. He is wearing cowboy boots and a crew haircut, and he keeps telling us to share our feelings. One addict, Arthur, admits that he has half a pack in his pocket. "Put it on the table," the doctor suggests. Reluctantly, he does. As we watch, horrified, a sincere young mod named...
...fancy name for human suggestibility. The same preconditions are required in both cases: a willingness to do what the suggester asks, the belief in one's ability to do it-plus the ability to do it. The importance of the latter is often overlooked. Asks Barber: If a hypnotist could really induce deafness in a subject, as hypnotists are forever claiming to do, then how could a verbal command ("You can hear now") ever break the "trance...
...once you accept that he is human, Shawn Masters is about right to be a hypnotist. Fleshy and self-assured, he has something of the same air that a photogenic politician or male movie star has when seen in person: the slightly artificial, larger-than-life appearance of a man who has been weathered by thousands of eyes. He's the sort of guy about whom people say, "He looks just like his pictures." just close enough and they'll go home satisfied. Tonight Shawn Masters is going to give both to the crowd-almost. And he's going...