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Thursday, April 10, 1986 /The Battalion/Page 7 Hypnosis used for treatment A&M clinic experiences success, demand By Molly Pepper Reporter Graduate psychology students are using hypnosis to help people kick their smoking and over-eating hab its. The Texas A&M Counseling and Assessment Clinic is offering hypno therapy to help patients break their compulsive habits, says Dr. Robert Reilley, a licensed psychologist and professor in the Department of Edu cational Psychology. The success of habit breaking va ries with the individual, he says. The specific habit and the individual’s dedication to breaking that habit are important factors, Reilley says. But Reilley says some people can not be helped through hypnosis be cause they can’t be hypnotized. Studies have shown there are de grees to which different people can be hypnotized, he says. Some people are very hypnotizable and some can’t be hypnotized at all, he says. Dr. A.W. White of the Parkway Medical Clinic agrees with Reilley that hypnosis can be used to help someone break a habit if the person is hypnotizable and dedicated to breaking that habit. “Hypnotism does nothing but re inforce the patient’s own commit tment,” he says. “If the patient has no committment it won’t do a thing. “No one can be forced under hyp nosis to do something they don’t want to do. The individual who com mits murder under hypnosis is a myth.” The clinic at A&M uses three hyp nosis techniques: direct suggestion, indirect suggestion and anxiety re duction, Reilley says. Indirect suggestion is used when patients resist direct suggestion, Reilley says. “People tend to resist suggestions and not want to make changes in themselves,” he says. “It’s more diffi cult to resist indirect suggestions.” Anxiety reduction is used to re duce the stress of breaking a habit, Reilley says. It’s used with habit breaking be cause people can become upset or anxious when they’re trying to quit a long-term habit, he says. Anxiety reduction is also used to reduce the stress associated with test taking. The clinic at A&M has had such a large response from students and the community that names are no longer being taken for the waiting list, Reilley says. Kathryn Sullivan, coordinator for the Counseling and Assessment Clinic and a graduate student in ed ucational psychology, says the hyp notists are trying to get people off the waiting list and into the clinic as fast as possible. The clinic has been offered dur ing the spring semester for three or four years now, Reilley says. ‘ It’s offered only during the spring semester because the hypnotists are doctoral students in a graduate level educational psychology class that Reilley teaches in the spring. However, Sullivan says the clinic might be offered more often in the future. Reilley stressed that if a person wants to be hypnotized, it’s impor tant to have someone who knows what they’re doing perform the hyp nosis. The clinic is free for students, while members of the community and faculty can also use the clinic by paying a fee of $60 an hour, Sullivan says. There is a sliding scale based on ability to pay for those who need the facility but would not be unable to pay for it, she says. The money from these fees is used by the Counseling and Assess ment Clinic which is only partially funded by the University. South plans presidential primary for 1988 WASHINGTON (AP) — South ern politicians say they have per suaded enough states to hold tneir primaries and caucuses during the same week in March 1988 to make the region a force to reckon with in presidential politics. Seven states in the South are hold ing primaries on March 8, 1988, other states are within a governor’s signature of joining the movement and a half-dozen more may act be fore presidential campaigning be gins in earnest. The concept is said to have wide support in Texas, but the Legislature doesn’t meet again until next year. The South is hoping to focus at tention on a region that in the past has been largely ignored by presi dential hopefuls. Texas state Sen. John Traeger, chairman of the Southern Legis lative Conference and a strong pro ponent of the regional primary, said, “Everybody says, our time has come, people in the South should have a stronger voice, and we think we will.” Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh, an other supporter, said, “It’s no longer a question of will we. It’s an accom plished fact.” Traeger said candidates will have to talk aoout issues of interest to the South, such as agriculture and immi gration, “instead of giving us that flag, motherhood and country “Everybody says, our time has come, people in the South should have a stronger voice, and we think we will. ” — Texas state Sen. John Traeger, chairman of the Southern Legislative Con ference. speech. That ain’t gonna cut it any more.” In the past, he said, candidates fo cused too much attention on New Hampshire, with its first-in-the-na- tion primary, and Iowa, with its early caucuses. “The people who won in New Hampshire said, ‘We’re the winner, get on the band wagon,’ ” he said. “We don’t think they’ll be stomping around in the snow in New Hamp shire for three or four votes if a third (of the delegates) are up here.” Three Southern states already had primaries scheduled for March 8, 1988 — Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Four more states joined them this year: Kentucky, Okla homa, Missouri and Tennessee. The “Super Tuesday” primary date has met with legislative appro val in Maryland and Mississippi. If governors in those two states sign the bills, it would bring to nine the number of Southern and border states planning to hold primaries on the same day. The tenth to join likely will be Vir ginia, where Gov. Gerald Baliles re turned legislation to the Assembly and recommended the state begin the process of choosing its delegates on March 12. It needs only minor adjustments. Politicians in several more South ern states have embraced the idea, so the count could climb before 1988. “Super Tuesday” primaries are expected to win approval in Loui siana, where the Legislature con venes this month, and in North Car olina, where lawmakers meet in June. In South Carolina, the date of the primary is decided by state party chairmen. 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