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On Wednesday, 22 October l952, inaccordance with proposed plans
as set out in the preceding memorandum, SI and H experiments were tand
carried on in Building 13, Room 20, with 2.. zand Eby Messrs.

For matter of record,,the subjects mentioned above were entirely new volunteersiin this work who had become interested through the and others and who had shown recruitment effortsof sufficient interest in the experimentation to be willing to co-operate. to attend this. In view of this, shad requested session for two reasons. The first to act as an experienced observer and to show by demonstration some of, the simple processes in the hypnotic technique.

After a considerable discussion in which the aims of the Artichoke workingwith work were pointed out to the three subjects, and the writer, demonstrated a number of simple hypnotic techniques. Simple tests were given for suggestibility (falling back, hand raising, dtc., etc.).

results In the case of and results were were about normal, but in the case of passed into a good hypnotic sleep and excellent in that was held in that condition for a number of minutes by the writer.

After the simple suggestibility tests were concluded, all of the subjects were given a general explanation of the slow relaxed process and wbegan a slow relaxation technique with the thereafter In this, and and gain srvau obtained a deep hypnotic sleep and the other subjects gave indication of being able to obtain a good hypnotic sleep in the future with more work.

Since this was the first attempt with the new subjects, the tests were concluded after an explanation and the session ended at approximately 9:15.

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22 0ctober 1952