NSA-RDP96X00790R000100030009-6

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AUTHOR: ROZHNOV, V., PROFESSOR, HEAD OF THE
CHAIR OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AT THE CENTRAL INSTI-
TUTE FOR THE ADVANCED TRAINING OF PHYSICIANS
TITLE:
DEBATE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF
HYPNOSIS
PRIMARY SOURCE: MEDITSINSKAYA GAZETA,
SEPTEMBER 24, 1975, NO. 77 (3484), P. 3,
COLS. 4-8
ABSTRACT: THE ARTICLE IS AN OPEN LETTER FROM
ROZHNCV TO PROF. P. V. SIMONOV, AUTHOR OF THE
RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK "HIGHER NERVOUS
ACTIVITY OF MAN. MOTIVATIONAL-EMOTIONAL
ASPECTS". ROZHNOV EXPRESSES HIS DISAGREEMENT
WITH SOME VIEWS ON HYPNOSIS AND ITS APPLICA-
TION THAT SIMONOV EXPOUNDS IN THE BOOK.
ROZHNOV SAYS THAT IF SIMONOV'S VIEWS ON
HYPNOSIS WERE ACCEPTED UNCRITICALLY, IT WOULD
MEAN THE END OF IMPORTANT RESEARCH ON THE
APPLICATION OF HYPNOSIS IN AREAS WHERE IT IS
NECESSARY TO RAISE MAN'S EFFICIENCY, TO ACTI-
VATE AND STIMULATE HIS VOLITIONAL QUALITIES,
AND TO EXPAND AND DEEPEN HIS EMOTIONAL SPHERE.
ROZHNOV IMPLIES THAT THIS RESEARCH IS AIMED
AT INCREASING THE CREATIVE. POTENTIALS OF THE
INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT SETTING UNREALISTIC GOALS
- OF ATTAINING CAPABILITIES THAT DO NOT EXIST
IN MAN. ROZHNOV SAYS THAT THE EMOTIONAL-
STRESS METHOD OF COLLECTIVE HYPNOTIC THERAPY
BASED ON STIMULATION OF THE EMOTIONAL SPHERE
THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE SOVIET UNION
IS OPENING UP PROSPECTIVE THERAPEUTIC
POSSIBILITIES.
ROZHNOV CALLS ATTENTION TO DATA PUBLISHED
IN RECENT YEARS IN THE "JOURNAL OF HIGHER
NERVOUS ACTIVITY" PERTAINING TO THE USE OF
HYPNOSIS FOR THE SOLUTION OF AN IMPORTANT
TASK OF COSMONAUTICS -- THE ADAPTATION AND
READAPTATION OF MAN TO CHANGES OF GRAVITY.
HE ALSO CITES AN ARTICLE IN ISSUE NO. 14,
1974, OF THE JOURNAL "KOMMUNIST", WHICH DIS-
CUSSES THE APPLICATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH
ELEMENTS OF HYPNOSIS TO NORMALIZE EMOTIONAL
CHANGES AND RAISE THE EFFICIENCY OF SHIP
CREWS DURING LONG OCEAN CRUISES.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/12/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100030009-6