Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-11-13 | Page 14 | Hypnotism Aids Women in Keeping Slim Figure

Hypnotism Aids Women In Keeping Slim Figure OXFORD Ohio Nov 13 ill And And And now science is using hypnotism hypnotism in In the he laboratory at least least to to aid in r regulating reg reg- I the diet so that a gil may ha have lave ve a figure slim eno enough to be fash- fash Professors ors E. E F. F Patten Fatten and S S. S A. A Switzer Miami university psychologists psychologists psychologists experimenting on reaching the unguarded recesses of the human mind during hypnosis are helping their heir laboratory subjects not only to remove excess wei weight ht but also alsoto to overcome self-consciousness self and to tout cut ut down on their smoking Their six years ears of laboratory work based ased partly on that of Dr Hull at Yale has dealt chiefly with posthypnotic posthypnotic posthypnotic suggestion in which a subject carries arries out actions upon waking which were suggested during the hyp- hyp otic state For example a girl subject wanted to o lose some weight during a hypnotic hyp- hyp otic trance it was suggested that she he stop eating starchy foods Later some fattening foods became extremely ex- ex distasteful to her and sh she regained her slim figure An amateur actor who was suf suffer suffer- cr lag ing ng from rom stage fright after alter receiving suggestions under hypnosis finds his bis acting is better belter A boy who had trouble getting up car early arly now rises at 7 a. a m m. and sev zev- eral persons who wanted to smoke smokeless smokeless smokeless less have been bean helped