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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...
Respectable Decade. Dr. Kunin believes that all psychotherapy makes use of the power of suggestion, but that hypnosis makes the most direct and efficient use of it. It helps the patient to concentrate, and with the added advantage of ideomotor signals it markedly improves communications between therapist and patient...
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