Washington — The joint engineering center of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. in Washtenaw County is partnering with the University of Michigan to study “highway hypnosis” — a mental state in which a person can drive great distances without recollection of having consciously done so.

Engineers from Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center Inc. in Superior Township will work with graduate students and professors from U-M’s College of Engineering and School of Kinesiology measure driver brainwaves using electroencephalograph (EEG) sensors, which has the potential to detect early on when a driver is becoming drowsy. A physical and sound alert tied into an onboard system could then jolt the driver awake.

“Current methods of detecting driver drowsiness are noting changes in head position and eyelid activity, both of which require a longer time to determine potential danger; whereas EEG sensors may detect driver drowsiness prior to the driver’s behavioral change taking place,” the Hyundai-Kia technical center said. The two Korean automakers are controlled by the same conglomerate.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,331 people were killed in distracted driving-related accidents in 2011, and NHTSA estimates 387,000 were injured.

Another collaboration between the technical center and university will try to boost fuel economy using a dual pre-chamber lean-burn combustion system. This study focuses on combustion chamber and piston dome geometry development and will examine in-cylinder flows.

“Combining the unbridled enthusiasm and free-spirited thinking of graduate students from a world-class university with the talented technical minds found within HATCI, we can explore new ways in which to approach significant technological hurdles in the automotive industry,” said Dr. Sung Hwan Cho, president of the technical center.

Umesh Patel, senior director at U-M’s Business Engagement Center, said, “These new research collaborations with the Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center demonstrate the multi-disciplinary nature of automotive research and have the potential to catalyze further research at the University of Michigan as well as to inform our educational mission.”



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As HSC student Cristian Pagano looks at the exam paper in front of him, he feels completely relaxed. The final high school exams do not start until October, but the 17-year-old is already mentally rehearsing the nerve-racking experience through hypnosis.

In response to the stress often associated with the high pressure exams, some high school students are turning to hypnosis for help.

Fairfax Media spoke to a number of hypnotherapists from Newcastle to Thornleigh who said they had worked with HSC students recently and expected to see more in the coming weeks.

Janine Rod, a psychologist and hypnotherapist at Bondi Junction, says she is working with more than 30 HSC students.

Students are induced into a relaxed and focused state through muscle relaxation and calming suggestions spoken by the hypnotist. The initial trance is often described as being similar to meditation.

''It's almost like a daydream,'' Ms Rod said. ''So you're not wide awake or fast asleep. You're sort of in a zoned-out kind of state.''

Stress management techniques encouraged by the NSW Board of Studies include a solid study plan, regular exercise, a balanced diet, sufficient sleep and study breaks.

Associate Professor Amanda Barnier from the department of cognitive science at Macquarie University said hypnosis could also be a very effective therapy tool for people suffering from anxiety. ''But it doesn't work for all people, for all problems, all of the time,'' she said.

Since visiting hypnotherapist Julie Phillips-Moore at Woollahra, Cristian says he copes better with stress and has less trouble sleeping.

''In the exams I would freak out, lose concentration and come out getting all angry,'' the year 12 student from Marrickville said. ''But now I'm able to sit there and focus and I stress a lot less. I was a bit sketchy about it at first, but I was willing to give it a try.''

Hypnotherapists say their industry is misunderstood and has been tarnished by stage hypnotism, where people are seen humiliating themselves with bizarre behaviour.

Ms Phillips-Moore says there is ''no trickery'' to hypnosis, which is made out to be something magical.

She said most people experience hypnosis many times a day, such as going on autopilot while driving.

''When you're in that daydreamy state you're accessing the subconscious mind, which is very intuitive, very imaginative and highly suggestible,'' Ms Phillips-Moore said.

Ashleigh Flanagan, who is in year 12 at St George Christian School, travelled to Newcastle to see a hypnotherapist before her recent trial exams.

''It just relaxed me and made me feel, not purely nothing, but like I had no worries and no stresses at all,'' she said.



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BENNINGTON -- At the Center for Hypnotherapy and Hypnoanalysis at 160 Benmont Ave., Thomas Lusa, a board certified hypnotherapist by the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the Association of Integrative Psychology, is in the business of relaxing, calming and helping his local clientele live with more clarity.

According to Lusa, hypnotherapy is the oldest natural treatment modality in existence, dating back to the time of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, all of whom used hypnosis in some form for the treatment of various ailments.

In 1841, James Braid, a Scottish surgeon, coined the term "neuro-hypnotism," later shortened to hypnosis and stems from the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos.

Later, during the Civil War, surgeons used hypnosis when they didn't have the option of anesthesia. Hypnotherapy was not recognized as a bonafied treatment for illness until 1958, when it was accepted by the British Medical Society, and later by the United States in 1960.

Today, hypnosis and hypnotherapy are commonly practiced methods for pain management, overcoming addictions, weight reduction, and, of course, relaxation.

Lusa says he frequently finds himself at the hospital, working with patients who are about to go into surgery and those in recovery, too.

The four levels of hypnosis can send a patient into a relaxed state at level one, and, at level four, into a state comparable to being under general anesthesia.

After practicing as a registered holistic nurse for most of his professional career, Lusa became interested in hypnotherapy and its perceived health benefits.

He took several training classes throughout the United States and Canada and studied Chinese and Japanese philosophy in great detail.

"I found working with the mind to be much more interesting than any other modality I'd explored over the years," Lusa said, having researched massage and reflexology as well. "Nothing else clicked with me the way hypnotherapy did."

The results yielded from hypnotherapy sessions come more rapidly than with other modalities as well, according to Lusa, which may appeal to many.

A study in alternative medicine showed that after 600 sessions of psychoanalysis, only 33 percent of patients reported recovery from their conditions.

After 22 sessions of behavior therapy, 72 percent of those reported recovery while hypnotherapy has a 93 percent success rate after only six sessions.

However, according to Lusa, it may take a few sessions to simply develop a certain level of comfort and trust with the therapist before one is able to completely relax and reap the benefits of hypnotherapy.

For those who may struggle with anxiety or stress in general, Lusa says hypnotherapy may be the solution you have been searching for.

"For most people, one or two sessions isn't enough," he said. "They're dealing with the anticipation of what's happening, not focusing on relaxing fully."

An initial hypnotherapy session will last for about 90 minutes and will include a complete health consultation.

Subsequent sessions will range from 45 to 60 minutes, and once the therapist and patient determine a certain level of success, a CD recorded by the therapist will be given to the patient to use at their discretion for maintenance purposes.

Lusa holds his private sessions in a small, naturally lit, minimally furnished office. A tiny stone fountain provides the perfect amount of tinkling white noise. Upon entrance to his little oasis of an office, it is impossible not to feel immediately relaxed.

Banner Arts Editor Andrew Roiter, who had never before experienced hypnotherapy, offered to join in on the adventure.

Before beginning the session, Lusa asked Andrew, as he does with every other patient, a series of questions about how he was feeling and explained that, contrary to how hypnosis is sometimes portrayed in movies or on television, you don't lose control over your behavior while under hypnosis, that you generally remain aware of and remember what happens throughout the session.

Lusa then helped Andrew to fully relax into the chair he was sitting on, and asked him to close his eyes and begin taking slow, deep breaths.

For the next 15 minutes or so, Lusa guided Andrew through a relaxation journey.

During this time, my eyes were wide open and my hand were busy taking notes and photos, but at times I found my eyelids drooping just from the deep, lulling cadence at which Lusa spoke.

Toward the end of the session, Lusa told Andrew that he would be tying a balloon to his left wrist (not literally) and to allow the balloon to guide his hand and arm up towards the ceiling.

I was amazed to see Andrew's arm float effortlessly above him, while the rest of his body remained still and seemingly asleep.

Lusa then told Andrew he would be puncturing the balloon and to let the falling balloon guide his arm back down to its original resting place. Again, this was done without second thought.

After counting backwards from 10, Lusa announced to Andrew that he would be awaking in a much more relaxed state.

His eyes fluttered open and Andrew smiled.

"I feel so rested," Andrew later said, explaining that he could feel many of the sensations Lusa was describing in his verbiage. "Everything except for my arm floating up felt like a conscious choice. It was like I had taken a long nap and woken up naturally and completely refreshed. Overall, it was a very pleasant experience."

With a treatment cost range between $60 and $125 per session, Lusa says he works with his patients to find a price that fits into their budget.

"I offer discounts to students and members of the local gyms," he said. "It really depends on what my patients can afford to pay. I'm in this to help people, not to make money."

Lusa said that the most important thing for those new to hypnotherapy to remember is to keep an open mind.

"Just as your mind creates disease, it heals disease," Lusa said. "If you're open to hypnotherapy, it can heal you."

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Grandmother Maureen Leach could not get through the day without a slice of cake after every meal, several bars of chocolate in the evening and biscuits with every cup of tea.

At just under 5ft, she was a size 18, weighed nearly 12st and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. She also had dangerously high blood sugar levels.
The advice from her doctor was to cut out eating sweet things, but after a lifetime of failed diets, Maureen felt her life was not worth living if she could not have a slice of cake or a chocolate biscuit.

"Nothing worked. I'm the middle of three sisters and I have always been the fat one. I have always been conscious of my weight but I couldn't slim for long – I just didn't have the willpower," she said.

But she was shocked into action when she began to suffer memory loss and was told that this could be linked to her diabetes and her diet.

"I was becoming increasingly forgetful, leaving the cooker on, burning things, not able to remember anything," said Maureen.

"I was afraid that I was heading towards dementia or Alzheimer's.

"My doctor gave me some memory tests, which I couldn't do, and she referred me to a memory clinic.

"They were concerned about my very high blood sugar levels and explained that there was a link between high sugar levels and memory loss.

"I didn't know this but apparently when sugar levels are high, blood thickening occurs which reduces the amount of oxygen reaching the brain. This can affect memory and concentration."

Maureen knew she had to make a permanent lifestyle change. But she was in despair at simply being told what not to eat with no further nutritional guidance.

It was after reading an article about hypnotherapy and the virtual gastric band treatment – hypnosis that makes the mind think the stomach is smaller than it is – that she consulted Beverley-based hypnotherapist Linda Johnson.

That was six months ago. Today, Maureen is 9st 9lbs, a size 10 to 12, with a blood sugar level between four and six. She feels a decade younger than her 66 years, has a new hairstyle, new clothes and no problems with her memory.

She never eats cake, chocolate or biscuits and does not miss them.

Maureen did not know it at the time but Linda, a clinical hypnotherapist, knew all too well what diabetes could do to the body. Linda said: "I was really concerned about Maureen when I first met her because her blood sugar was so high and I have a family history of diabetes.

"My grandmother had type two diabetes, which led to her developing gangrene and having to have both legs amputated.

"My grandfather on the other side of my family had type one diabetes and died when he was 60.

"My godmother also developed type 2 diabetes.

"And yet we were a family that thought we ate really well – my grandfather had an allotment and we ate fresh food but we were also tempted by the cakes, the biscuits and the pastries.

"We don't realise what these can do to the body and how easy it is to actually eat well without these foods, which are basically nutritionally bereft.

"So, my gastric band therapy not only encourages the brain to think that the stomach is smaller, but also to take on the message that food is fuel for the body.

"By eating the right foods – proteins, high-quality fats, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds to make sure we get all our vitamins, minerals and nutrients – the body is going to work much better."

Linda worked in the NHS and at director-level in the pharmaceutical industry for many years.

She developed a support programme around the virtual gastric band treatment that Maureen could incorporate into her daily routine.

It involved relaxation therapy, a healthy eating plan, and a simple exercise regime she could follow without going to the gym.

And there was another secret weapon. Linda taught Maureen the Emotional Freedom Tapping technique to drain negative feelings away.

"My husband has encouraged me all the way – and friends are amazed at the transformation," Maureen said.

"I can't tell you how good it feels to wear nice clothes and to feel and look younger."



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For well over a century, hypnosis has been used to treat a wide range of conditions including irritable bowel syndrome, post-traumatic stress and eating disorders. But now neuroscientists are using hypnosis to gain insight into medically unexplained paralysis such as hysteria, hallucinations and schizophrenia.


By Peter Halligan, Cardiff University

Despite long standing associations with mysticism and stage hypnotism, hypnosis has also been used for medical and scientific purposes. For well over a century, hypnosis has been used to treat a wide range of conditions. These have included pain, irritable bowel syndrome, post-traumatic stress, phobias and eating disorders.

More recently, hypnosis has began to attract notice from cognitive neuroscientists. They have become interested in understanding hypnosis, and using it to simulate unusual states of consciousness in the lab.

Hypnotic suggestion allows one to harness the effect of attention in the brain. This allows the enhancement, and even production, of a wide range of experiences. In many people, hypnotic suggestion can producecompelling changes in perception and cognition, including temporary paralysis, anaesthesia and blindness.

Hypnosis produces a highly focused state which allows “suggestions” – simple statements communicating changes in a person’s experience or behaviour – to take place, such as “your leg is becoming so stiff that you cannot move it”. It has also been long recognised that suggestions can be effective without a hypnotic induction procedure, but this is rare, only occuring in highly suggestible individuals.

In the labThe ability to experimentally manipulate subjective awareness in the laboratory could have major potential, as I describe in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience Review.

Current interest in the area can be divided into two types of research. Some are looking to acquire a better understanding of the nature of hypnosis. Others are interested in using hypnotic suggestion to investigate certain aspects of normal and abnormal psychological functioning.

Employing a range of brain imaging technologies, both approaches are using hypnosis to explore the nature of consciousness. They are also gaining insight into the brain mechanisms underlying visual perception, pain, and the putative origins of some clinical symptoms. These include medically unexplained paralysis as seen in hysteria, hallucinations, delusions and alterations in control over thought and actions in schizophrenia.

Understandably, scepticism remains regarding the credibility of reports involving hypnotic suggestion. Participants, however, typically describe the perceptual and behavioural changes experienced as “real”, and beyond voluntary control.

Recent experimental studies support the case for hypnosis being a physiologically credible experience. This is particularly seen where suggestions disrupt well-established automatic, unconscious processes, such as reading.

The findingsThere is a now a growing literature which shows how hypnotic suggestion can be used to create temporary functional changes in a range of ways.

Hypnosis has also been used instrumentally to develop and test models for a number of specific psycho-pathologies including delusions, auditory hallucinations, functional paralysis and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It can also be used to suggest subjective experiences that are similar to symptoms observed in neurological and psychiatric disturbances. These have included chronic pain conditions, and disorders of volition and motor control.

Hypnotic suggestions have been used to induce “synaesthetic” experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another. In colour-number synaesthesia, people experience colours associated with specific numbers. The reliable effects reported in naturally occurring synaesthesia are commonly considered to be outside a subject’s control. However, one study showed that hypnotic suggestion could be effective in abolishing the apparently automatic experience of synaesthesia.

There is clearly great future potential in this growing field. In addition to scientific advances, the ability to produce neurological symptoms of “virtual patients” in normal volunteers also provides a potential training value. Practitioners could have the possibility of experiencing these symptoms for themselves: through hypnotic suggestion.

Over the past 25 years Peter Halligan has received funding from MRC and other UK research councils and charities, although none specifically for research on hypnosis.

Reporter Hayley O’Keeffe writes about how hypnosis saved her from a lifetime of catching the bus.





I failed my driving test six times, there I said it.

Aged 28 this was not a good thing for me, learning to drive was something I felt I should have done a lot, lot sooner, but as circumstances dictated it just never quite happened.

I’ve had plenty of lessons mind you, and whenever I had any spare money would spend it on intensive courses to try and get myself that illusive pink card.

But to no avail, when it came down to actually doing the test I was just so nervous. I’ve had tests where the examiner has grabbed the steering wheel, where I’ve travelled in second gear down Bedford’s London Road, and where I’ve (almost) gone the wrong way around a roundabout. If I’ve ever cut you up I’m very sorry, I was just nervous!

I’ve had some great tuition too, from the ever patient Gerard Doyle of Drive Johnsons, he has had to put up with a lot I can tell you.

Part of it must be to do with my age, the 17-year-olds just hop in and get going, but I think it was predominantly my mindset. I’ve always been the passenger in the car, and have never really been interested in motoring, super cars and especially not Top Gear! Being behind the wheel seemed like an alien world and was more than a little scary.

So that’s where Sue Wilson came in.

Sue works at Bedford Health in St Cuthberts Street and is a hypnotherapy practitioner, what’s more she offers a special pre-driving test session to help candidates get over their nerves and achieve focus.

I booked my seventh driving test, and after much deliberation a session with Sue, would this help me pass my test once and for all?

The fateful day arrived and I headed to Bedford Health for the hour long session.

Part of me thought that this would be just the ticket, another hoped that I wouldn’t come out of the treatment room quacking like a duck!

But hypnotherapy is nothing like the myths. In a 
consultation Sue asked me just how anxious I felt about the test, what I was most concerned about and what I wanted to feel like when I was doing the test.

And after the hour, which was very relaxing indeed, I came out feeling focused and ready for the test, in a way I have never felt before.

And do you know what? Later that afternoon, when the 
examiner turned to me and said you’ve passed I was so excited, because hypnotherapy, and a little perseverance really does work!

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A multidisciplinary group of researchers from Finland (University of Turku and University of Helsinki) and Sweden (University of Skövde) has now found evidence that hypnotic suggestion can modify processing of a targeted stimulus before it reaches consciousness. The experiments show that it is possible to hypnotically modulate even highly automatic features of perception, such as color experience. The results are presented in two articles published in PLoS ONE and International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. The nature of hypnotically suggested changes in perception has been one of the main topics of controversy during the history of hypnosis. The major current theories of hypnosis hold that we always actively use our own imagination to bring about the effects of a suggestion. For example the occurrence of visual hallucinations always requires active use of goal directed imagery and can be experienced both with and without hypnosis.

The study published in PLoS ONE was done with two very highly hypnotizable participants who can be hypnotized and dehypnotized by just using a one-word cue. The researchers measured brains oscillatory activity from the EEG in response to briefly displayed series of red or blue shapes (squares, triangles or circles). The participants were hypnotized and given a suggestion that certain shapes always have a certain color (e.g. all squares are always red). Participant TS-H reported constantly experiencing a change in color immediately when a suggested shape appeared on the screen (e.g. seeing a red square when the real color was blue). The researchers found that this experience was accompanied with enhanced high-frequency brain activity already 1/10 second after the stimulus appeared and it was only seen in response to the shapes mentioned in the suggestion. The second participant did not experience the color change or the enhanced activity. However, she reported a peculiar feeling when a suggestion-relevant shape was presented: "sometimes I saw a shape that was red but my brain told me it had a different color."

This enhanced oscillatory brain activity is proposed to reflect automatic comparison of input to memory representations. In this case the hypnotic suggestion "all squares are red" led to a memory trace that was automatically activated when a square was presented. Furthermore, for the participant TS-H the effect was strong enough to override the real color of the square. The matching must have occurred preconsciously because of the early timing of the effect and the immediacy of the color change. Also, both participants reported having performed under posthypnotic amnesia without conscious memory of the suggestions.

In the article published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis TS-H was tested in a similar type of setting, however, only behavioral data, including accuracy and response times in color recognition, were collected. These results further support that a hypnotic suggestion affects her color perception of targeted objects before she becomes conscious of them. Furthermore, TS-H was not capable of changing her experience of visually presented stable images without the use of hypnotic suggestions i.e. by using mere mental imagery.

Importantly, both of these experiments were done by using a posthypnotic suggestion. The effect was suggested during hypnosis but the experience was suggested to occur after hypnosis. Thus all the experiments were carried out while participants were in their normal state of consciousness.

This result indicates that all hypnotic responding can no longer be regarded merely as goal directed mental imagery. It shows that in hypnosis it is possible to create a memory trace that influences early and preconscious stages of visual processing already about 1/10 second after the appearance of a visual target. This result has important implications in psychology and cognitive neuroscience especially when studying visual perception, memory and consciousness.

The Finnish part of the research is funded by the Academy of Finland.

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British actor Stephen Fry underwent hypnosis to help him keep time during a musical performance with his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie.

House star Laurie, who has a sideline as a blues musician, reveals his friend does not share his talent, and went to drastic measures to perfect a song for a live Tv performance.

Laurie tells Reuters, "Stephen would be the first to admit that music is not his (thing) - he loves it, he's extremely knowledgeable and he consumes it voraciously but he'd be the first to admit that it's not his strong suit as a performer. We once sang a song together on live television and he actually had to undergo hypnosis to allow him to basically finish the song at the same time as the band finished. It wasn't a question of holding a note... He sort of finished, more or less, in the same calendar month as the band, which had not been the case in rehearsal."

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Doctors say they have witnessed an increasing number of people opting for the therapy to control pre-surgery stress.

Pic for representational purpose Patients in the city are increasingly turning to hypnotherapy to help them control pre-surgery stress and fear. The technique is being used by psychologists and psychiatrists to bring down stress levels in patients prior to surgery and in some cases, to help with reducing labour pains as well. Hypnotherapy is not just used for major surgeries like kidney transplantation, but even for simple dental procedures.

Dr Prashant Bhimani, a psychologist, who has used hypnotherapy to help several transplant patients manage their pre-surgery stress at the Institute of Kidney Disease and Research Centre (IKDRC), said, that it also aids in better and faster recovery of patients.

“Many patients undergo severe stress before surgery. And this need not be a major surgery. We use hypnotherapy on patients to calm them as well,” said Dr Bhimani. He further said that the length of the therapy sessions is different for each case.

 “At times, patients come to us on their own, while in some cases, the doctors recommend them to undergo such sessions to manage their stress levels,” said Dr Bhimani.

Dr Mrugesh Vaishnav, a psychiatrist, who too has been practising hypnotherapy, said that he gets patients who make use of the therapy for minor dental procedures as well.

“Patients do come for such therapy before major and minor surgeries. But I have had patients, who make use of the therapy to manage their stress levels before undergoing minor dental procedures,” said Vaishnav.

He said that it is also increasingly sought by pregnant women to help them manage their labour pain.

However, Dr Hemang Desai, another psychiatrist, believes that mind relaxation techniques like hypnotherapy have been around for many years.

“It is just that now people are getting aware about it. Earlier, patients were a bit hesitant about the use of drug-less therapies. However, now, its acceptance has gone up and this could be the reason for more patients opting for it. Although, there has not been a drastic rise in number of patients opting for such therapies,” said Dr Desai.

Dr JM Jadeja, head of the physiology department at Civil Hospital, said that similar therapies are being offered to patients at the hospital too.

 “It started almost a month ago and we have seen patients benefit from it,” said Dr Jadeja.

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After eight years away from the Premier League, Crystal Palace shouldn't need much motivation ahead of their season opener with Tottenham on Sunday week.

But manager Ian Holloway - taking no chances - has had his players hypnotised before the big match to ensure they're psychologically sharp.

Former world boxing champ Glenn Catley, now a qualified hypnotherapist, has been visiting the club regularly since the players returned for pre-season training last month.
Catley, 41, held the WBC super-middleweight title 13 years ago, bumped into old friend Holloway while out walking the dog and was given the responsibility of preparing Palace for their first season back in the top flight.

He told The Independent: 'I underwent hypnotherapy for 10 years in my boxing career. When I retired eight years ago, I took a course in clinical psychotherapy, hypnosis and sports psychology in Bristol.

'Two months ago I was out walking the dog and bumped into Ian, a good friend from way back in the west country where we both live.


Entranced: The Palace squad have been undergoing the hypnotherapy sessions since returning to pre-season training last month


'After talking to him about what I did, he invited me to meet with his players. He told me they have all the talent but psychologically they were letting a few demons creep in.'

Catley added: 'Now I see them for a few days every week, including the first team squad. We work on a one-to-one basis and part of the therapy is to hypnotise them, putting them in a trance.

'I think it helps to eliminate many psychological problems.'

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