Letter
from Lhasa, number 305. Ipnosi
by
Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
Gulotta, G., Ipnosi. Aspetti psicologici, clinici,
legali, criminologici, Giuffrè Editore, Milan, Italy, 1980.
(Gulotta 1980).
Gugliemo Gulotta
Hypnosis, a two-way
interaction, is a key technique for mind control and self-control.
A long discussion on
hypnosis, to which this work is dedicated, shows that it be a wide range of
phenomena with different levels of trance. Hypnosis is only a form, not
necessarily the best, of suggestion and conditioning. It needs to be
continuously adapted both to the hypnotizer and to the hypnotised.
By hypnosis, and its
various forms, it is possible to change the patient history, so to change the
patient’s personality. The hypnotiser can use hypnosis for therapeutic purposes
but also for evil ones.
For instance, one can
remove anxieties, or negative conditioning, but also to introduce them. Science
always has different faces. It may be used for different purposes.
The subject is healed in
hypnosis, not by hypnosis, not by the simple fact of being hypnotized. So, when
the subject is hypnotized, the therapist needs to know what to do for healing
the subject.
Whether other people
total control be possible, by hypnosis, is presented as a disputable and
disputed matter. However, the answer finally is positive.
It may not be easy. In
some case, it may be necessary to use narcotics. Finally, the total
manipulation, even for criminal purposes, of a subject is generally possible.
It is question of
techniques may or may not be adequate for achieving that goal. The absolute not
manipulability of a subject may eventually be an exception, not the rule.
Gulotta, G., Ipnosi. Aspetti psicologici, clinici,
legali, criminologici, Giuffrè Editore, Milan, Italy, 1980.
