Secret, don't tell

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Carla Emery's Book "Secret, Don't Tell" Introduction Dedication .....iii This book Is For You .....iv Thanks .....iv Foreword .....vi Introduction......vii Defining Unethical Hypnosis .....vii History of Criminal Hypnosis .....viii Secrecy and Denial .....viii Information Control Is Mind Control .....ix Contents at a Glance .....x Part I -Case Histories of Criminal Hypnosis Svengali: Abusive Stage Hypnosis in Literature and Life Svengali and Trilby .....1 Exploitation of Female Stage Mediums .....3 “Voodoo Death” on Stage .....4 Hypnotic Subject Killed on Stage .....4 Abusive Hypnosis in Literature .....5 Case History: “Z” Kantor .....6 Zebediah Kantor .....7 Adam Begins the Hypnosis .....7 Missing Time .....7 Exploitation .....8 Arrests and Jail .....10 Karl du Prel .....10 Trial .....11 Dr. Kroener Learns the Truth .....11 Kroener’s Book .....12 Post-War Events .....12 Case History: Mrs. E. .....13 The Day It Began .....14 Suggested Sickness, Suggested Healing .....15 Murder Suggestions .....16 How Intense Can Hallucinated Pain Be? .....16 Suicide Suggestions .....17 Mr. Evan Goes to the Police .....18 Mayer Cracks the Case .....18 Word Associations .....20 Bergen’s Assistant .....21 Mayer’s Book .....21 The Trial .....21 Case History: Palle Hardwick .....22 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 Case History: Candy Jones 54 Childhood, Youth, and Career .....54 Candy Jones: Model .....55 Lieutenant Candy Jones .....56 A Telephone Induction .....56 Marriage, Money Problems .....57 CIA Recruits a Courier .....57 An Odd Burglary .....58 Mail Service .....58 A Favor for Donovan .....58 The Proposition .....59 Candy Signs Up .....59 Mind-Splitting Use for Imaginary Childhood Playmate .....60 The Hypnosis Begins .....61 Disguised Induction .....61 Induction Hardware .....62 Drug Inductions .....62 Candy’s Conditioning/Training .....62 Artificial Personality Split ...63 Induction Cues .....64 Isolation .....64 Telephone Induction .....65 Training a Hypno-Agent .....66 Courier in Action .....66 Torture and Shame Experiments .....67 Nice Treatment .....67 Torture .....68 Measurable Degrees of Agony .....68 Snake-in-the-Box Experiments .....69 Shame .....70 Demonstration at Langley .....71 Candy Fights Back .....71 Suicide Orders .....71 Better Wed Than Dead .....72 Arlene Begins to Appear .....73 John Hypnotizes Candy .....73 Arlene Spills the Beans .....74 John, Candy, and Arlene .....75 Dentists and Doctors .....76 John Battles Arlene .....77 Bain Writes Candy’s Story .....78 Publishing and Publicity .....78 Publicity Tour .....79 John, Candy, and Bain Are Silenced .....80 Unquenchable Truth .....80 Part II - A Partial History of U.S. Government Mind-Control Research U.S. Research on Hypnosis and Mind Control Begins .....81 The Personalities .....81 Donovan Organizes the OSS .....81 Clark Hull .....82 Lovell Hires On .....82 Estabrooks Promotes “Super-Spy” .....83 Unknowing Subjects .....83 Estabrooks Promotes Secrecy - and Reveals Secrets .....84 Estabrooks, M.H. Erickson, and the FBI Experiment .....85 How to Program an Unknowing Hypnotic Subject .....85 False Fronts .....86 Wiener Links Computer Research with Neuroscience .....86 Cybernetics .....86 Military Mind-Control Research Begins .....87 Watkins Experiments 87 Conditioned Subject Doesn’t Resist Induction .....87 Interrogation Use of Hypnosis .....87 A Military Offense Caused by Hypnosis .....88 Suggested Murder .....89 Brainwashing Research Begins .....89 Secret Agencies, Secret Research, Secret Operations .....90 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 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 ....252 Sleep 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 Reseach .....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