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...ever conclusively explained hypnotism. This week a successful practicing hypnotist, Andrew Salter, made a plausible try (What Is Hypnosis- Richard R. Smith, $2). Frowning severely at the hocus-pocus that has surrounded his clouded calling, Salter argued that hypnosis is just another conditioned reflex. No "trance," no "suggestion," no "mind over matter...
...Salter is a quick, intense, 30-year-old Manhattan psychologist who has made a very good thing out of mesmerism. His psychotherapy by means of autohypnosis (TIME, June 2, 1941) is currently a Park Avenue rival of psychoanalysis. For fees from $1,000 up, he has greatly helped a golf professional who was off his game, brooding artists, jittery businessmen, neurotic housewives, drunks, insomniacs, kleptomaniacs - usually in not more than six sessions. Some enthusiasts think that Salter's methods actually threaten psychoanalysts...
...support of his theory, Salter cites experiments by Psychologist C. V. Hudgins, who conditioned human subjects to contract the pupils of their eyes, first in response to a flashing light, then to a bell, then to the word "contract," then to the mere thought of the word "contract...
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...
From Ankara came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were...