WONDERS OF HYPNOTISM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 464, 20 September 1928, Page 11

WONDERS OF HYPNOTISM

REMARKABLE CURES MADE I HARLEY STREET EXPERTS ‘ LONDON, Sept. 12. I The claim was made by Dr. D. Buchanan, of Cambridge, at the congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Glas-l 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 3 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 drug-takers, removing morbidity and restoring memories lost in accidents. ’ 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 claimed. can there—fore learn to hypnotise himself, thus enabling him to face a task with abso‘ lute concentration. Practitioners scoff at the idea that people can be forced to commit crime and declare that it. is impossible to make a. patient act against his better nature, nor can they eradicate memories. 7 ‘ 7