Word: salters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunter (H) defeated (B) 6-3, 6-1; Levin (H) defeated Odt (B) 6-1, 6-2; Holton (H) defeated Hutchinson (B) 6-2, 6-3; Newman (B) defeated Frothingham (H) 7-5, 3-6, 7-5; Roberts (H) defeated Chattleton (B) 7-5, 6-1; Littlefield (H) defeated Salter...
...Willner (H) defeated Stewart Hunt (B) 8-6, 6-3; Henry Moulton (H) defeated John Ten Barge (B) 6-0, 6-3; Bill Magleas (H) defeated Dean Staats (B) 10-8, 6-1; Fred Pratt (H) defeated Hugh Savage (B) 6-3, 6-0; Julian Hatton (H) defeated Eliot Salter (B) 7-5, 6-4; Ivor Littlefield (B) defeated Albic Marks...
Conditioned Saints. Carrying on, Salter suggests that hypnosis is one kind of response to words that touch off associations. "What are words," says he, "but the bells of conditioned reflexes?" The words "heavy" and "sleep" are the bells that enable Salter to close some subjects' eyes ; he conditions patients to hypnotize themselves by thinking the same words. He believes the word-conditioning theory also accounts for hallucinations, ghosts and the visions of saints. He has found that artists and highly intelligent persons are the easiest to hypnotize, because they have deeper and clearer word-associations...
...Salter's experiments have produced amazing results. He trained patients to anesthetize themselves by autohypnosis; they jabbed needles into their arms without feeling it and, by means of posthypnotic suggestion, remained indifferent to the pain even after they "awoke." Salter also conditioned patients to deafness to all sounds but his own voice. When a gun was fired behind a patient, he gave no sign of hearing it; his blood pressure did not even rise. Salter played a recording of an air raid so loud that he could not hear his own voice, but the patient heard Salter...
...Salter's alcoholic patients condition themselves to hate liquor by repeated doses of self-hypnosis. In treating neurotics, the psychologist helps patients relieve themselves by making a clean breast, under hypnosis, of their unconscious fears and troubles. In What Is Hypnosis Salter offers a breath-taking project: teaching autohypnosis to soldiers. Says he: "Simple mass procedures applied to soldiers could quickly filter out one of five or at worst one of eight who can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anesthetized...