MODERN HYPNOTISM

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 41, 27 September 1928, Page 5

MODERN HYPNOTISM

REMARKABLE CLAIMS. HARLEY STREET SPECIALISTS. LONDON, September 22. The claim was made by Dr. D. Buchanan, of Cambridge, at the congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Glas gow, that by the use of hypnotism, he had enabled university students brilliantly to pass their examinations. The Evening News says this is only one glimpse of the wonders of modern hypnotism. Harley Street specialists are declared to be performing many marvels. Patients cannot, however, be induced to commit crime or act against their better nature. One girl emerged screaming from a seance intended to induce her to forsake her lover! The paper says Harley Street specialists are turning into painters and musicians persons who, previously, had not painted or played. They are also curing drugtakers, removing morbidity and restoring memories lost in accidents.

A, famous practitioner explains that it must not be imagined that hypnotism gives people knowledge which they do not possess. It merely removes anxiety which was preventing clear thinking, and which had left students helpless and frightened in the presence of, examiners. Moreover, it removes excessive failures, and assists in the removal of the inferiority complex. The same practitioner says latent talent, such as that involved in composing music, can he developed under hypnotic influence. It is not always necessary to send a patient to sleep. His attention is simply distracted from other things and concentrated upon the essential subject. Man, it is claim ed, can therefore learn to hypnotise himself, thus enabling him t 0 face a | task with absolute concentration. i Practitioners scoff at the ulea 1 that people can be forced to commit crime ahd declare that it is impos sible to make a patient act agams his better nature, nor can they eradicate memories.