emotions and
ATTACHMENT F
Pages from EMOTIONS and MEMORY
(INFERENCE ONE AT BOTTOM)
Conclusions Page 176.
Further compilation and consideration of page 175 by inference of note 16, page 176 derived from the referred experimental evidence, alternatively states that somnambulistic performance will naturally create amnesia and that fewer suggestions post hypnotically acted on will be easier to forget.
The note beginning on page 175 that continues to the top of page 176 exemplifies and defines a profound or extreme potential of memory performance as a natural tendency of hypnosis.
An enhancement to the argument presented here is that; if the general tendency is to forget and a phylogenic motivated disassociation or repressed parental complex is used to motivate the creation of post hypnotic amnesia conditioned by exploitation of affective tendencies and their meanings in the commission of hypnotic manipulation; then the uses of suggestion to visceral fear as a motive to empower suggestion to forget, coupled, with the work of the hypnotist to "dissolve" amnesia, implies that barriers to memory can be "built."
If barriers can be built they can be destroyed although trauma from childhood somnambulistic trance states may often prohibit recall. Some individuals become addicted to occupying alternative trance states and return over and over to the person inducing the trance. This results in very deep control of the indvidual and is particuarly important to integrate into the understanding of the potentials of abuse that is the primary purpose of this site.
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BASIS 1 of INFERENCE
The first sentence of page 175 of EMOTIONS and MEMORY, 1964, by David Rappaport,
"The general tendency” of the subject to forget the events of the trance after emerging from it."
BASIS 2 of INFERENCE
(1) of the same paragraph states that, "The hypnotist can successfully suggest that no posthypnotic amnesia develop".
Basis 2 Restated; Suggestion conducive to remembering is successful or generally, suggestion effecting memory has effect against a general tendency.
CONDITIONS OF BASIS
The first note page 175, EMOTIONS and MEMORY, Note #8 states that the results of memory described "in general are valid only with subjects who are able to reach the somnambulistic stages of hypnosis."
INFERENCE
Logical inference of BASIS 1 with BASIS 2, is that; suggestion to forget will have a greater effect on memory because of the general “tendency to forget”. Research confirms with observations of behavior consistent with general hyper amnesia at the top of page 176, the end of a footnote that begins on page 175 stating; "we find hypnotized people indignantly denying they have been hypnotized."
INFERENCE ONE
If the tendency is to forget following hypnosis that induces a trance to the level of somnambulism and suggestion effecting memory is successful then suggestion to forget will be more effective than suggestion to remember.
AMICUS CURIAE