Word: sandstrom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of the L.A.P.D.'S behavioral-sciences services, decided last year to set up a special hypnosis unit, the first in the U.S. Kroger and nine other medical hypnotists trained 14 L.A.P.D. officers in the technique, which dates back at least to ancient Egypt. Says L.A.P.D. Captain Richard Sandstrom, who is currently evaluating the work of the force's new Svengali Squad: "Hypnosis gives utterly fantastic results...
...offered a comfortable chair, and a two-man team explains to him that a witness cannot be hypnotized against his will. (When one scared subject blurted that "the devil will come out of me if I'm hypnotized," he was excused.) "Motivation is the most important thing," says Sandstrom. "If they are willing to cooperate and you help them to relax, then it is very easy...
...head off charges of quackery, the L.A.P.D. is now organizing a "forensic hypnosis society," a professional organization for police hypnotists-complete with a code of ethics. Says Captain Sandstrom: "We want to make hypnosis respectable-after all it came out of the dark ages...