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Psychosomatic Medicine 7:273-278 (1945)
© 1945 American Psychosomatic Society

An Hypnotic Ablation Technique for the Study of Personality Development

A Preliminary Report

HERBERT SPIEGEL M.C.1, JOEL SHOR A.G.D.1, and SIDNEY FISHMAN A.G.D.1

1 Mason General Hospital, Brentwood, L. I., New York

A preliminary report is made on a development in technique of hypnotic regression. The prominent features are (a) suggesting specific birthdays, (b) avoiding any other suggestion that might interfere with a spontaneous self-orientation, (c) introducing into the regressed situation a third person, without hypnotic influence upon the subject, to administer the clinical testing.

This technique apparently results in a blocking out or ablation of all personality developments from the present back to the specified birthday, thus releasing authentic personality-intelligence manifestations of the appropriate age level.

Some Binet intelligence test data are presented in illustration, and several theoretical implications are discussed in the context of the data.




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