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SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS
IN THE USSR
THE SOVIET PERSPECTIVE ON DISSENT
FEB. 19-21, 1979
University of Michigan
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MONDAY, FEB. 19
7:30 P.M. Encapsulation of the Year's Events
JERRY GOODMAN, Director, National Conference
on Soviet Jewry
8:30 P.M. The Effect of Pressures from the West
DAVID CHUDINOVSKY, Columbia University
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TUESDAY, FEB. 20
7:30 P.M. Censorship in Soviet Liter
IGOR YEFIMOV, Fiction Writer, Sov
8:30 P.M. Anti-Semitism in the Sovie
ALLAN ALTER, Graduate Student inI
University of Michig
WEDNESDAY, FEB.21
7:30 P.M. Soviet Constitution and th
Rights of the individual
GEORGE GINSBURGS, Rutgers LawS
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PSYCHOLOGIST AND HYPNOTIST Don Powell shows off his confusion disc to Daily staffer Dennis Sabo, who seems
mesmerized by the hypnotic device.
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By DENNIS SABO
The swirling designs of the spinning disc gently pull at
the mind. The tunnelling effect toys with the gentle
balance of reality . .. numbing the senses . . . meting
time. The illusion urges you to follow, leading you away
from the present, away from the here and now.
"We're so suggestive in an hypnotic state," Dr. Don Powell
said as he stopped the confusion disc and seated himself
behind his desk. "What we tell ourselves becomes reality. If
we tell ourselves that cigarettes taste bad, they'll taste bad.
If we tell ourselves to stop the intake of rich foods, we would
lose weight."
Powell is a practising hypnotist. His attempts to alter
behaviors, using hypnosis, succeed where other therapy'
fails.
IN HIS SMALL Huron Tower office, the University
professor explained how people are more apt to accept what
they are told in an hypnotic, rather than a normal state.
"We look at the mind in a duality; the conscious and the
subconscious," Powell said. "The conscious mind is very
critical. We tend to rationalize things. Whereas the subcon-
scious mind, the hypnotic state, is very suggestive and ac-
cepts inputs uncritically."
In the state of heightened suggestibility, a patient is able to
&make changes, psychological as well as physical, Powell
said. Hypnosis can help persons to overcome test anxiety,
quit cigarette smoking, as well as increasing stamina and
performance in sports. Powell said he has helped several
local athletes live up to their potential by having them con-
centrate and relax in game situations.
IN A RECENT study at St. Joseph's hospital i joliet, Ill.,
28 out of 44 women were able to increase their breast size
nearly two inches through hypnosis, Powell said.
"In breast enlargement studies, the women changed their
blood flow to the breast region," Powell said. He added
ongoing studies using hypnosis to retard the growth of cancer
have been successful.
In the case of cigarette smoking, the subjects are
imagine themselves as non-smokers with their bodies
tar and nicotine.
told to
free of
"IMAGES; somewhat like an implanted disc, will block out
and prevent urges and the desire to smoke," he said.
Powell, a specialist in educational psychology, has also
been actively involved in using behavior modification to alter
undesired behaviors. A licensed hypnotist, Powell became
interested in hypnosis several years ago when he used the
technique to overcome his phobia of speaking in front of large
audiences.
Powell refutes the common belief that hypnosis-can make
persons do something against their wishes.
"YOU CAN'T hypnotize someone into doing something;
against their will to commit a murder or become
sexually permissive," he said.
Hypnosis can be traced back to Anton" Mesmer (as in
mesmerize), a Vienna faith healer in the 1700's who touched
people to cure their pains. Most medical experts at the time
dismissed Mesmer as a charlatan. He wound up his career in
group bathtub therapy - waving a wand and touching the
water, Mesmer supposedly cured the tub's occupants.
Sigmund Freud also used hypnosis until denouncing it
when he adopted couch therapy.
Hypnosis has gained popularity since the American
Medical Association approved it as an anesthetic in 1958. It'
has been used more recently in police interrogations to help
persons recall details of crimes.
Many people are hypnotized daily without realizing it.
Powell said. White road lines on a long highway, drive or
flashing and colorful television commercials can produce
light trances, he said.
Although further uses of hypnosis are still being explored,
Powell admits hypnosis cannot cure any problem.
"Hypnosis is not a panacea,' he said. "It doesn't cure
everything, but for a lot of people, it has been proven to
produce some remarkable results.
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Daily
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Sunday, February 18,1979
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Daily Calendar
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Advanced Study, "High Energy Behavior of Jet-And
Lepton Pair Production," 2038 Randall, 4 p.m.
General Notice
GRE Testing, Saturday, Feb. 24-If you have
either already signed up to take the GRE Aptitude
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it were administered in Ann Arbor, would you kindly
phone Mrs. Dettling, Secretary, Evaluation and
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cil meeting later. "It all depends on the
situation," he said.
Options open to the Security Council
range from censure to the intervention
of U.N. forces.
The Vietnamese envoy delivered let-
-ters to Waldheim and Bishara from
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nugyen
Duy Trinh, which said in part:
"ON 17 FEBRUARY, several infan-
try divisions and Chinese artillery
tanks backed by aviation launched a
massive attack on the whole length of
the Chinese-Vietnamese bor-
der. . . and occupied numerous
It added the Chinese had struck as far
as six miles into Vietnamese territory.
Trinh said this "'constitutes a threat
to peace and security in Southeast Asia
and the world."
The Chinese supported the North.
Vietnamese communists against the
U.S.-backed South Vietnamese gover-
nment in the Vietnam War. But old bor
der and ethnic tensions between the two
countries flared anew after the North
Vietnamese toppled the Saigon gover-
nment and reunited the country in 1975.
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Sunday, February 18, 1979
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