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This document is a report detailing a hypnosis experiment conducted on December 9, 1953, involving volunteers and noting varying degrees of success in achieving hypnotic states.
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Ask the archive about this →. I ~ ' To: Files Subject: SI and H Experimentation, 9 December 1953 • .. On 9 December 1953, Wednesday, SI and Building ... I '! • •' ·, After some discussion, ~who hen arrived latP., gave a slmr induction to all hands which further indica ted 'I that some o were erproaching deep hypnosis. Thereafter, .individual hypnosis \.lith all volunteers has worked successfully for ~ho .· cases, with the extc' ~. . -l:iss obtain a good sleep state. . . . sed ~· . of attention, includin xa ~on, rlsing and ·,.i, fallinG arm with a count, etc. In · case, she apparently accepted the hypnosis at s eded in reaching a light state but owing to an position tm~ in which she had fnllen and the feet tha~ttempted an arm movement, caused her toawaken prematurely. - Since the work had started promptly at 6:00 Pl-1, the \.rriter terminated the session at this point which was approximately 9:00·PM.
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The page is typed, and the text is primarily black ink on white paper. There are handwritten annotations at the top right corner: "A/B, 3, 2/29". Several large, black rectangular redactions obscure portions of the text, primarily names and specific details within the narrative of the hypnosis experiment. The document appears to be a report detailing an experiment involving hypnosis and its effects on subjects. There is a handwritten letter "A" to the left of the main body of text, possibly a notation for organization or indexing.
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