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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kunin's first session is devoted to getting the patient relaxed, and suggesting to him while he is still hypnotized that he will be able to 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...
...important thing is for the patient to visualize the scene. Dr. Kunin feels that too many people do not "see with the mind's eye," but think about things in near-abstract terms, which are not 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...
Later, the patient is asked to picture a future situation that he dreads, and to 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...
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...
...hundred psychiatrists using it in the U.S.* It is impossible to get precise figures to show just how much it actually speeds up therapy. But optimistic hypnotists believe that even in difficult cases they can get a cure or a marked improvement in nine out of ten patients with once-a-week treatment, and that usually they can get it in less than a year. And the patient who cannot be hypnotized, they say, is the exception...