The Predator: Nielsen …..22
The Prey: Palle Hardwick …..22
Palle’s Childhood and Youth …..23
From HIPOCORPS to Capture …..23
Trial and Imprisonment …..23
Nielsen the “Guru” …..23
Palle Learns “Yoga” …..24
From Trance to Hypnosis …..24
Social Isolation …..25
Palle Accepts “X” As God …..25
Preparation for a “Mission” …..27
Palle Out of Prison …..27
An Arranged Marriage …..28
Training for Robbery …..29
Guru Failures …..29
First Bank Robbery …..30
Second Robbery and Murders …..31
Capture, Interrogation, Psych. Evaluation …..32
Interrogation …..32
Informers …..32
Psychiatric Evaluations …..33
Dr. Reiter Enters the Case …..34
Futile Attempts to Hypnotize Palle …..34
Evipan Breaks the Seal …..34
Palle, the Somnambulist …..35
Training …..35
Transference …..35
Classical Conditioning …..36
Testing …..37
Somnambulist Palle Is Demonstrated …..37
Induction Cue, by Phone …..37
Hypnotist: “Artificially-Induced Superego” …..37
Induction Cue, in Writing …..38
Amnesia and Posthypnotic Suggestions …..38
A Criminal Suggestion …..38
Regressions …..39
Guarantee Truthful Regression …..39
Suggested Autobiography …..40
Trial Preliminaries …..40
Palle’s Dreams …..41
Psychological Reports, Grief …..43
Reiter Loses Hypno-Control …..45
Trial and Appeals …..47
Palle Teeters on the Brink …..49
“New Evidence” …..50
Psychological Assessments …..51
Nielsen Hits Again …..52
Appeal Denied …..52
Reiter’s Book …..53
OSS Ends and CIA Begins 91
CIA Mind-Control Research Projects 92
BLUEBIRD …..93
ARTICHOKE: CIA/Military Hypnosis Research …..93
MKULTRA …..93
Who Led The Mind Control Race: Soviets or U.S.? …..94
National Security Agency …..95
Largest, Wealthiest, and Most Powerful …..95
Turf Wars …..96
Of Secret Agencies and Investigative Reporters …..96
Fastest and Most Secret …..97
Classified Documents …..97
A Mission to Eavesdrop …..98
Legal or Illegal …..98
Electronic Mindreading …..99
New Branch of Psychology: “Military Psychology” …..100
Mind-Control Research: Goals and Methods …..102
Terminal Experiments …..102
Where Terminal Research Was Done …..104
Cameron’s Patients …..105
CIA Settles w/Canadian Nine…..106
Medical Ethics …..106
Mind-Control Research Goals …..107
Disguised Induction …..107
Hypnotic Memory Training …..107
Hypnocouriers …..108
Sealing …..109
1950s CIA Hypnogoals, and Probable Outcomes ……109
(1) Identify Hypnotically Susceptible Personality …..109
(2) Which Mind Control Method for Each Personality? …..110
(3) Time Needed to Establish Mind Control? ……110
(4) Is the Conditioning Permanent? ……110
(5) Can the Conditioning Be Reversed? …..110
(6) What Could Go Wrong During the Conditioning? …..110
(7) How Complete Will the Control Be? …..111
(8) Can Complex Conduct Be Hypnocontrolled? …..111
(9) Are Personality Changes Caused By Hypnotic Suggestion Detectable? ….111
(10) Can Preconditioning Be Detected? .111
(11) Can a Preconditioned Subject Be Reprogrammed? …..111
(12) Can We Reprogram a Reprogrammed Hypnoprogrammed Person? …..112
(13) Perfect Amnesia? ……112
Personality Restructuring …..112
Research on Personality Restructuring …..113
Hypno-conversions …..113
Physical Methods of Psychiatry …..115
Amnesia Research …..116
Hypnoprogramming Uses for Amnesia …..116
Broken Feedback Circuit …..116
Secret Will Rule …..116
One-Way Amnesia …..116
Narcohypnosis 117
Hyperventilation …..117
Barbiturates …..117
Police Use of Barbiturates …..118
Research on Narcohypnosis …..118
Barbiturate Plus Stimulant …..119
Project CHATTER …..119
Barbiturate Forces Induction? …..119
Back in the Real World …..119
A Summary of Mind-Control Uses of Barbiturate …..120
1) Amnesia …..120
2) Immobilization …..120
3) Forced Trance Induction …..121
4) Opportunity to Carry Out Hypnosis Training …..121
5) Speed of Induction …..121
6) Depth-Conditioning …..121
7) Rapport …..121
8) Suggestibility …..121
9) Addiction …..122
10) Rohypnol …..122
Electroshock …..123
Shock to Increase Suggestibility …..123
CIA Researches Using Shock to Increase Suggestibility …..123 Tien Shocks Bad Wife into Good Wife …..124
Shock to Cause Retroactive Amnesia …..126
CIA Research on Using Shock to Cause Amnesia …..126
Three Stages of ECT Amnesia …..126
First Stage …..126
Second Stage …..126
Third Stage ……126
Regressive Shock …..127
Post-Shock Recovery …..127
Shock to Cause “Calm” …..127
The History of Deliberate Personality Splitting ……128
The “Dual I” …..128
CIA Researches Subconscious Isolation …..130
History of Research on Artificial Neurosis …..130
Pavlov Applies Freud …..130
Luria Researches Artificial Neurosis …..131
Failed Conditioning Method …..131 Success …..131
Artificial Neurosis Comes to the U.S. …..132
Focus Shifts to Child, Real or Suggested …..133
Freudian Hypnosis Researchers …..133
Natural Development of Multiple Personality …..135
The Controllable Child …..136
Dependence …..136
Does Not Clearly Distinguish Fantasy from Reality …..136 Accepts Logical Inconsistencies …..136
Obedience ……136
Natural Amnesia ……136
Assumption That Might Makes Right …..136
Greater Imprinting Capacity …..136
Hypnochild Given Artificial Neurosis …..136
Brickner’s Technique, Summarized …..137
Operation Often: A Case History …..138
Long-Term Operator-Subject Relations …..139
Complete, Helpless Obedience …..139
Combined Technologies …..139
Induction, Disorientation, and Reorientation …..140
First Induction …..140
Disorientation …..141
Reorientation As Fish …..141
Capacity Regression …..141
Training for “Can’t Come Up” …..142
Little Girl …..143
Deprivation/Partial Restoration Technique …..143
Sex Conditioning: A Pseudo-Oedipal Stage …..143
Types and Degrees of Suggested Physiological Arousal …..144
Masochism Suggestions …..144
An Oedipal Experience …..145
Limbic/Emotional Programming …..146
Limbic Anatomy …..146
Limbic Function …..146
Maximized Drive to Remember Conditioning ….147
Maximized Drive to Repress Conditioning …..147
Maximized Dominance over Competing Programming …..147
SEX=HYPNOSIS …..148
SO ASHAMED: Guilt Training …..148
Hilgard’s Type One and Type Two Hypnotic Amnesias …..148
DON’T REMEMBER: Amnesia Resolves Drive Conflict …..149
Amnesia Results in Split Personality …..149
Communication Rules ….151
Military Limbic Hypnoprogramming …..150
Operation Mind Control …..150
Project Monarch …..151
Obedience Training …..152
Aversive Conditioning ……152
Classic Pavlovian Conditioning …..152
Artificial Superego: Rules …..152
Electroconvulsive Shock …..153
Electroshock in Military Hypnoprogramming …..154
Psychic Driving …..154
Cue Statement: a Dynamic Implant …..155
Grateful for Her “Cure” …..156
Proud to Be a Good One …..156
Cover Personality …..156
Interlocking Amnesias …..156
Shifting the Rapport …..157
Language: Backwards and Too Soft to Hear …..158
Information, Interviews, and Incidents …..159
John Marks Uncovers Secrets, Then Hides Them Again …..159
Marks Files FOIA Request …..160
Bumbling, Ineptitude, and Failure? ……160
The Big Lie …..161
A Brief, Strange Phone Conversation …..162
“They Wouldn’t Hesitate to Kill You” …..162
“Joe”: A Case History …..163
Trouble Remembering Names and Faces (Prosopagnosia) …..163 Driving Dogs “Crazy” …..164
Difficult Civilian Adjustment …..164
Joe Gives a Warning …..165
R.J. Thinks They Killed His Author-Friend …..165
Of Patsies and Assassins …..166
Lee Harvey Oswald …..168
Jack Rudy …..168
Sirhan Sirhan …..169
Mind-to-Mind Trance Inductions …..171
Friend Tries a Hit …..171
A Pattern Emerges …..173
History of a Psychic …..173
Psychic Research …..174
Cold War Psychic Research …..174
ESP Is a Trance Phenomenon …..175
Teacher from the Psychic Institute …..177
Psychiatry Is No Longer a Joke …..180
“A” Was Not Available …..180
“B” Is for Background …..180
“C” Is for Counterintelligence …..181
“D” Is for Dangerous …..181
Analysis of a Hit …..183
1. Thought Projection …..184
2. Imperceptible Induction Pressure …..185
3. Confusing Routine of Hand Pressures …..185
4. Erotic Signal …..185
5. Forced Articulation of Pre-Speech Thought …..185
6. Brainprint …..188 7. Mind-reading …..188
Of Biochips and Cyborgs …..189
Musings …..190
Part III – Trance Phenomena
Trance as a Personal Experience …..193
Trance: The Subjective Experience …..195
Light Trance, Deep Trance, or Hypnosis? …..195
Natural Trance …..196
Light Trance …..196
Deep Trance …..197
“Hypnosis” Defined …..198
Trance Training …..199
Hypnosis? or Just Advertising? …..200
Advertising to the Unconscious …..201
Media Can Displace
Reality …..201
Television and Children …..202
HDTV …..203
Subliminals …..203
Visual Subliminals …..203
Audio Subliminals …..203
A Subliminal Sales Event …..204
Ten Important Hypnotic Phenomena …..205
1) Suggestion …..206
Suggestion Targets Automatic Obedience …..206
Direct vs. Indirect Suggestions …..206
2) Rapport …..206
Rapport As a Focus on the Hypnotist’s Voice …..206
Rapport as Love …..206
Rapport as Addiction …..206
Rapport as Bonding …..208
Rapport Also Impacts the Hypnotist …..208
The Freudian View of Rapport …..208
3) Automatism …..208
Suggestion Intends Automatic Obedience …..208
Words as Conditioned Stimuli …..209
Hypnotic Conditioning …..209
Unconscious Reflex Dominance Attributes ….. 210
1) Chronological Sequence …..210
2) Emotional Intensity …..210
3) Depth …..210
4) Strength of Drive …..210
5) Repetition …..210
6) Amnesia …..210
Habit …..210
Simultaneous Automatic and Conscious Behavior …..211
Conversion …..211
4) Catalepsy …..213
Suggested Catalepsy …..213
Catalepsy to Test Trance Depth and to Deepen It …..214
Deep Trance Catalepsy …..214
Catalepsy vs. Catatonia …..214
“Bridge” Phenomenon …..214
5) Hallucination …..215
Normal and Abnormal Hallucinations …..215
Interview with an Ex-hypnotist …..216
Positive Hallucination …..217
Negative Hallucination …..217
6) Anesthesia …..217
Anesthesia Reveals Trance Depth …..218
Anesthesia in Stage Demonstrations …..218
7) Posthypnotic Suggestion …..219
Posthypnotic Action Revives Trance …..219
Posthypnotic Suggestion Lasts …..219
Unremoved Suggestions Remain Active
Posthypnotically …..220
The Possible Variety of Posthypnotic Acts …..220
Rationalization …..221
The Cue …..222
Induction Cues …..222
Sealing …..223
A Peculiar Incident …..223
Protective Sealing …..224
Normal Long-Term Memory …..225
Stages of Remembering …..225
Independent, Parallel Memory Systems …..225
Neural Patterns of Lowered Resistance …..225
Diphasic Act of Remembering …..226
Retrieval …..226
Memories Are Associated and Can Be Cued …..226
Views on Memory Validity Vary …..227
8) Amnesia …..227
Hypnotic Phenomena That Affect Memory …..228
Suggested Amnesia …..228
Confabulation …..228
Hypermnesia …..228
Regression …..228
General Categories of Amnesia …..229
Normal Forgetting …..229
Functional Amnesia …..229
Affective Amnesia …..229
Dissociation Amnesia …..229
Spontaneous Amnesias …..229
Suggested Amnesia …..230
Fugue …..230
Resistance to Remembering …..231
Testing Amnesia …..231
Artificial Multiple Personality …..232
Amnesia Blocks
Your Feedback System …..232
9) Regression …..233
Meanings of “Regression” …..233
Three Types of Memory Regression …..234
Remembering …..234
Reenacting …..234
Revivification (Reliving) …..234
Regression Therapy …..234
The Cases of Lucie
and Marie …..234
The Case of Mrs. S …..234
Case of the Asthmatic Man …..235
Regression: True or False? …..235
10)Confabulation …..236
Four Paths to False “Knowing” …..237
1) Rationalization …..237
2) False Memory Implanted by Suggestion …..237
3) Fabrication …..237
4) Confabulation …..237
Suggestibility Causes Confabulation …..237
It Feels True …..238
False Knowing, But Real Emotion …..238
Toleration of Confabulation …..238
1) Money …..238
2) Abreaction Therapy …..238
3) Legal Protection …..239
4) Return Business …..239
5) Reinforcing Group Belief …..239
“Incest Memories” …..239
Part IV – Induction Methods
Visit with a Stage Hypnotist …..241
Is Stage Hypnosis “Fakery”? …..246
First Inductions …..248
Readiness: the Pre-induction Stage …..248
Pre-induction Suggestions …..249
Disguised Inductions …..250
Avoiding the H Word …..250
“Just Relax” …..251
Disguised Induction by Imagery …..251
Conversational Induction …..252
Chaperone Induction ….252Sleep Induction …..252
Fast, and Forced, Inductions …..253
The Actively Resisting Subject …..253
Conditioned Induction …..253
Forced Reinduction …..255
Length of Time in Trance …..255
Self-Hypnosis …..255
Bernheim and Coue Start It …..256
Nancy School Therapy Principles …..256
Biofeedback …..256
Susceptibility …..258
Screening for Susceptibility …..258
An Anthropological View of Trance …..259
Genetic Susceptibility Spectrum …..259
Factors Associated with High Susceptibility …..259
Induction of Retarded and Psychotic …..262
Training for Susceptibility …..262
Self-defense for Susceptible Persons …..262
Depth …..263
Depth Training …..263
Training to Go Deeper …..263
Training to Maintain a Specified Depth …..264
Deepening Techniques …..264
Depth Scales …..265
Dissociation …..265
Number of Depth Stages …..265
Two Stages: Light and Somnambulist …..265
Three Stages: Slight, Deep, and Somnambulist …..266 Stages Subdivided into Degrees …..266
Self-Report Scale …..266
Characteristics of Depth Stages …..267
Light …..267
Medium …..267
Deep (Somnambulist) …..267
“Catalepsy” vs. Somnambulism …..268
Waking Trance …..268
Coma …..269
Books on Trance Induction …..270
The Physiology of Trance …..271
Suggestion Causes Physiologic Changes …..271
Induction Physiology: The “Relaxation Response” …..272
Physiological Effects of Induction …..272
Is “Relaxation” the Same as “Trance”? …..272
Brains Are Exciting! …..273
Brain Anatomy …..273
Reticular Activating System …..274
Biophysics …..274
EEG …..275
Can an EEG Detect Hypnosis? …..275
Trance Induction Observable on EEG …..275
Waking Hypnosis Not Discernible on EEG …..275
Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta …..276
The Hypnoid States: Alpha and Theta …..276
Alpha …..276
Theta …..277
Hypnagogic States …..277
Self-programming in Hypnagogic …..277
Addictive Aspects of Trance …..277
Radiated Inductions …..278
Current of Injury Reverses Polarity …..278
Neurons …..279
Chemical Communication …..279
Electrical Communication …..279
Direct Currents …..280
Trance Reverses Normal
Polarity …..280
Options …..281
Pavlov’s Four Induction Types …..281
Type 1 Induction: Sensory Deprivation Shuts Down the Analyzer …..282
Sensory Deprivation Experiments …..283
Hypnotic Chambers …..284
Randall N. Baer …..285
Deprivation and Concentration Inductions …..285
Massage, and Mesmeric “Passes” …..286
Relaxation …..286
Progressive Relaxation …..286
Repetition …..287
Type 1 Induction Machines …..288
Hypnodiscs …..288
Recorded Inductions …..288
Mind Blanking …..289
Eyes Have a Role in Induction …..290
Eye Focus …..290
Eye Closure …..290
Obedience Conditioning …..290
“Pretend” Inductions …..291
Abstract Conditioning …..291
Discipline Conditioning …..292
Induction by Shift to Right Brain …..293
Visualization Induction …..293
Ideomotor Induction …..293
Dream Inductions …..294
Maternal/Paternal Induction Styles …..294
Type 2 Induction: Excitation Overwhelms the Analyzer …..295
Overwhelming Noise …..296
Confusion …..296
Emotional Shocks …..296
Emotion Inductions …..297
Fear …..298
Sex Inductions …..299
About the Tension Induction and Hyperalert Trances …..299
Type 3 Induction: Brain Syndrome …..300
Combining Induction Types …..301
Type 4 Induction: Chemical, Electrical, and Biomagnetic (“Psychic”) ….302
Induction Machines …..303
Flashing Lights …..304
The Magic Chair …..304
Part V – Legal & Therapy Issues in Abusive Hypnosis
Interview with a Hypnotist-Lawyer …..305
U.S. Legal Cases Involving Hypnosis …..308
“I Want to Stop Now” …..309
More Cases of Criminal Hypnosis: Tried and Untried …..310
Criminal Hypnosis: Court Cases …..310
The Case of Spurgeon Young …..310
Austin v. Barker …..311
Other Cases of Sexual Violation in Hypnosis …..311
Louis v. State …..312
The Sala Affair …..312
People v. Leyra …..312
State v. Levitt …..313
Johnson v. State …..313
Mirowitz v. State …..313
J. Hartland’s Report …..314
Regina v. Palmer …..314
United States v. Springston …..315
Criminal Hypnosis: Out-of-Court Cases …..315
Newspaper Reports …..316
Bad Outcomes of Hypnosis …..316
Kline’s Cases …..317
You Must Be Dreaming …..319
Why Not Seek Relief from Abusive Hypnosis by Legal Means? …..320
Texts and Training in Forensic Hypnosis …..321
A Hypnotist’s View of Forensics …..321
National Guild of Hypnotists …..322
Who Has the Ethics Problem? ……322
Manuals of Forensic Hypnosis …..323
Teitlebaum: Facts Stated …..323
Scheflin and Opton: Facts Straddled …..324
Udolf: Facts Distorted …..325
Lawrence and Perry: Facts Denied …..326
Meyers: Textbook Myths …..327
Musings …..328
Hypnosis of Witnesses …..328
Basic Facts of Forensic Hypnosis …..329
Chowchilla Case …..329
Bryan …..330
Spiegel …..330
Kroger …..330
Howell …..330
Baranowski …..331
Public Spokesmen on Hypnosis: Truth, Half-Truths, and Lies …..332
M. H. Erickson …..333
The Erickson Foundation …..333
Erickson on “Antisocial Hypnosis” …..334
Opposition to Erickson’s “Research” …..335
Results of the “Antisocial” Article …..336
M. H. Erickson Video …..337
Ericksonian Technology Applicable to Criminal Hypnosis …..338
1) Ericksonian Disorientation …..338
2) Sensory Distortion …..338
3) Amnesia …..338
4) Artificial Neurosis …..339
Erickson on Regression …..39
T. X. Barber …..340
Medfield Money …..341
Barberisms …..341
The Skeptics: Sarbin and Spanos …..342
“The Skeptics” …..343
Sarbin …..343
Spanos …..343
The Not-So-Skeptical Inquirer …..343
Martin T. Orne …..344
Orne on “Antisocial” Hypnosis …..344
Guidelines for Investigative Hypnosis …..345
Musings …..346
Criminal Hypnosis Is Possible:Wells and Brenman, Salter and Bowers, and Young …..347
Wells and Brenman …..347
R. W. Wells …..347
Margaret Brenman …..348
Salter and Bowers …..350
Salter …..350
Bowers …..350
Young …..351
Antisocial Uses of Hypnosis …..351
Techniques of Criminal Hypnosis …..352
1) Powerful and Primitive Unconscious …..352
2) Omnipotence by Identification …..352
3) Narcohypnotic Induction …..352
4) Minimizing Outside Reality, Changes in Thought Mode …..352
5) Limiting of Subject’s Internal Input …..352
6) Suggested Hallucination …..352
7) Suggested Unbearable Pain …..352
8) Identification of Hypnotist with Parent …..352
9) Selective Amnesias …..352
10) Focus and Dissociation …..352
11) Artificially-Induced Complex …..353
12) Training for Automatism …..353
13) Reorganization of Psychic Life …..353
14) Capacity Regression …..353
15) Sidelining the Conscious Mind …..353
16) Suggested Neurotic and Psychotic States ..353
17) Assumption of Another’s Identity …..353
18) Gradual Conditioning …..354
Conclusion …..354
How to Identify a Victim of Unethical Hypnosis …..355
1. Report from Relatives or Other Observers …..357
The Posthypnotic Trance …..357
Posthypnotic Trance Proves Existence of Previous Trance …..357 Posthypnotic Trance Defines Nature of Previous Trance …..357 How to Identify a Posthypnotic Trance …..357
Slander, Lies, and “Paranoia” …..358
Slander …..58
Lies …..358
Paranoia …..358
2. Self Report …..360
a) Programming Error …..360
b) Context Clues …..360
Missing Time …..360
Recognized Hallucinations …..360
Inexplicable Behavior …..360
Illogical Observations …..336
c) Indignation Overload …..361
d) Feeling in Control …..361
e) Aging …..362
3. Revealing Induction Phenomena …..362
a) Unusually Susceptible …..362
b) Depth-limited and Regression-blocked …..362
c) Unusually Insusceptible …..363
d) Piggybacking ……363
e) Extraordinary Reaction to Onset of Trance …..363
4. Evidence from Projective Testing …..364
“Draw Nothing” …..364
Sealing May Affect Ability to See Illusion …..364
Walk Through Your “Land” …..364
5. Inhibition, Anxiety, or Somatic Reaction to “H” Topic ….365
a) Inhibition …..366
b) Anxiety …..366
c) Somatic Reaction …..366
6. Symptoms of Repression …..367
a) Blocking When Questioned …..367
b) Emotional Numbing …..367
c) Approach-Avoidance …..367
d) Spontaneous Eruptions of Repressed Hypnotic Memory …..367
e) Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress …..368
Phobias …..368
7. Social Isolation …..369
8. Memories: Absent, Inadequate, Or Too Perfect …..369
9. “Weakness” During, Fear of Control After …..370
Fear of Control …..370
10. Sleep Symptoms and Dream Clues …..370
Survivor Dreams …..370
Analyzing Dreams …..371
Survivor Confabulation …..373
The Manchurian Candidate: A Novel …..374
Yen Lo, Military Hypnotist …..374
Narcohypnotic Immersions and Conditioning …..374
Marco Figures It Out …..375
Afterthoughts …..375
Help and Healing …..376
Therapy Issues in Clinical
Hypnosis …..376
A Hypnotic Predator Is in the Picture …..377
Screened Contacts …..377
To Flee, Or Not to Flee …..378
Who Can Help? …..378
The Easiest Cure …..378
Need to Tell …..379
Time Issues in Therapy …..380
Trance Time Moves
Slowly …..380
Putting Together the Puzzle …..380
Money …..381
Therapy by an Amateur …..381
Therapy by a Professional …..381
Gender of Helper …..381
Training and Credentialing …..382
When Christians Seek Deliverance from Abusive Hypnosis …..382 Client-directed Therapy …..383
Reporting Assaults …..383
Narcohypnosis …..383
Method to Overcome Amnesia: Healing, Freeing Image …..383
Remembering Eables Forgetting …..383
One Brain: Three Different Minds …..384
Limbic System …..384
Cerebrum …..384
Left Brain …..384
Right Brain …..384
Right-brain Symbolic Language …..385
Right-brain Parallel Memory …..385
The More Reliable Image …..385
The Inductive Image …..385
The Freer Image ……….385
Thinking with Images …..385
Image Generating …..386
Image Inspecting …..386
Image Manipulating …..386
The Image as a Hypnotherapy Tool …..386
Dealing with Frightening Images …..386
Covert Desensitization …..386
Emotion …..386
Guided Fantasy …..387
Help for the Healing Process …..387
Right-brained or Left-brained? …..387
Other Methods to Overcome Amnesia …..388
1) Persistent Questioning …..388
Possible Questions …..388
Leading Questions …..388
2) Ideomotor Techniques …..389
Chevruel’s Pendulum …..389
Automatic Writing …..389
3) Hypnagogic Crossover …..390
4) Association …..390
5) Guessing …..390
6) Recognition …..390
7) Regression under Rehypnotization …..391
State-dependent Learning …..391
Breaking a Seal …..392
Cognitive Dissonance …..392
8) Narcohypnosis …..392
Corroboration …..393
Therapy Techniques …..393
Hypnotherapy Class …..393
The Class …..393
Induction Training …..393
Amnesia Suggestion …..394
Ethical Issues …..394
Limiting Number
of Sessions …..394
Tebbetts Hypnotherapy Techniques …..394
Correcting a Misprogramming …..394
Parts Therapy …..395
What John Did Not Understand About Candy’s Therapy ….396
Wolberg’s Five-step Therapy …..397
a) Accept the Therapeutic Process …..397
b) Strengthen the Subject …..397
c) Bond …..397
d) Recover Repressed Feelings and Memories 398
e) Integrate …..398
Love and Respect …..398
Most Effective Worded Suggestions …..399
When to Stop Therapy …..400
Conclusion …..400
Part VI – Reference
A Brief History of Hypnosis 4000 BC to 1900 AD …..401
Ancient and Medieval Hypnosis ….401
Faith Healing Versus Scientific Theories …..402
Nettesheim …..402
Paracelsus …..402
Greatrakes and Bagnone …..402
Maxwell …..403
Gassner …..403
Mesmer …..403
Mesmer Testifies Against
Gassner …..403
Suggested Crisis …..404
The Franklin Commission …..405
Top Secret: For the King’s Eyes Only …..405
Mesmer Loses Face …..406
Abbe Faria, Deleuze …..407
Marquis De Puysegur …..407
Puysegur and Race Discover Somnambulism …..408
Puysegur Defines Somnambulist Phenomena …..408
Puysegur Grapples with Moral Issues …..408
Contributions of Puysegur …..409
Liebeault, Bernheim, and the “Nancy School” …..409
Liebeault …..409
Bernheim …..410
Beaunis …..411
Liegeois …..411
Binet and Fere …..411
A Case of Suggested Theft …..412
Charcot and the Salpetriere Group …..413
Weird Science …..413
Lewd Desires …..414
The Case of Pauline …..415
Nancy vs. Salpetriere in Court …..415
Everybody Hypnotized Gabrielle …..416
Tourette …..417
Janet …..417
Across the Channel: Braid and Bramwell …..418
Pavlovian Vocabulary …..419
Complete Inhibition …..419
Cortex Inhibition …..419
Excitation-inhibition …..419
Irradiation-concentration …..419
Transmarginal Stimulation …..420
Hypnotic Phases …..420
State of Equalization
(Equivalent Phase) …..421
Paradoxical Phase …..421
Ultraparadoxical Phase …..421
Positive Induction …..422
Negative Induction …..422
Progressive Inhibition of Cortical Analyzers …..422
Brainwashing: The Technology …..423
Brainwashing’s Goal
Is Conversion …..423
Methods of Brainwashing …..424
Three Stages of Brainwashing …..424
Stage One: Deconditioning …..424
Biderman’s List of
Deconditioning Factors ……424
1) Isolation, Disorientation, and Loss of Control …..424 2) Monopolization of Perception …..425
3) Exhaustion …..425
4) Threats …..425
5) Occasional Indulgences …..425
6) Subjugation …..425
7) Degradation, Omnipotence, Omniscience …425
8) Enforcing Trivial Demands …..425
Lifton’s Brainwashing Analysis …..426
Stage Two: The Breaking Point …..426
Ultraparadoxical Stage …..426
Submission to and Positive Identification with Enemy …..426
Compulsives Resist the Best …..427
Internalization of the Guilt for Breaking …..427
Self-loathing Measures Inmate’s Renewal …..428
Stage Three: Reconditioning …..428
Grateful for the Cure …..429
Musings …..429
Behaviorism and Government Ally …..430
History of Behaviorism …..430
The Philosophical Postulates of Behaviorism …..431
1) Unlimited Research …..431
2) Behavior Control …..432
3) Government Control of Science …..432
4) Government Control of Information …..432
5) Government Patents Its Research and May Seize Civilian Research …..433
6) Managed Media …..434
Musings …..434
Musings on the Waco News …..435
Skinner on Behavior Control: The Rest of the Story …..435
Glossary …..437
Ability, Hypnotic …..437
Abreaction …..437
Addiction …..438
Affect …..438
Agent …..438
Altered State of Consciousness …..438
Amnestic …..438
Analysis …..438
Anchoring …..438
Antisocial Hypnosis …..438
Anxiety …..439
Association …..439
Automatism …..440
Aversive Conditioning …..440
Awake …..441
Behavior Shaping …..441
Behavior Therapy …..441
Block …..442
Brief Therapy …..442
Catatonic …..442
Clinical …..442
Cognitive Dissonance …..442
Conditioning …..442
Conscious Mind …..443
Contagion …..443
Context Clues …..443
Control …..443
Conversion …..444
Corroboration …..444
Cue …..444
Cybernetics …..444
Daydreaming …..444
Delirium …..444
Deprogramming …..444
Desensitization …..444
Disorientation …..445
Drive …..445
Ego …..445
Feedback …..445
Forensic Hypnosis …..445
Freudian Hypnotists …..445
Freudian Hypnosis Theory …..446
1) Need for Omnipotence …..446
2) Tendency to Love …..446
Hellstromism …..445
Hypermnesia …..445
Hypersuggestibility …..447
Hypno-analysis …..447
Hypnoidal State …..447
Hypnotherapy …..447
Hypnotist …..447
Hysterical Symptoms …..447
Ideomotor …..447
Learned Helplessness …..447
Learning Theory …..447
Libido …..448
Meditation …..448
Medium …..448
Neurosis …..448
Operant Conditioning …..448
Operator …..448
Posthypnotic Suggestion …..448
Primary Process …..449
Projection …..449
Psychoanalysis …..449
Pumper Command …..449
Rapport …..449
Rationalize …..450
Recovered Memory …..450
Reflex …..450
Repression …..450
Resistance 450
Role-playing …..450
Rorschach Test …..450
Seance …..451
Sensory Deprivation …..451
Shadow …..451
Somnambulist …..451
Stockholm Syndrome …..451
Subconscious …..452
Subject …..452
Subliminal …..452
Suggestion …..452
Symptom Removal …..452
Testing …..452
Therapy …..453
Token Economy …..453
Torture …..453
Tranceable …..453
Trance Logic …..453
Transference …..453
Transfer of Control …..453
Unconscious (16 Important Characteristics of Every Person’s Unconscious) …..453
Visualization …..455
Wake Up …..455
Bibliography …..456
A Brief History of Information on Criminal Hypnosis …..456
Public Sources of Hypnosis Information …..457
Writings Cited in – Or Relevant to – This Book: A-Z …..458
Relevant Chronology: 1493 to Present …..479
Index …..491
