Hemi-Sync® Journal 1990-1 (Winter)

Pre-Op Tape VISIT #1 Several large restorations were completed. METAMUSIC Tape Patient Comment: "I didn't feel a thing. That's really A single tooth was prepared for a crown. great." Patignt COPglgsipn; "Well-general anesthesia would b e m o r e e ff e c t i v e - b u t o u t s i d e o f t h a t . . . " VISIT #2 Single tooth prepared for a crown. CASE #7 Patient Comment: "The pinched nerve in my neck has quit hurting. I feel good all over." (No mention of This is the most complex and challenging case in the the dental procedure.) entire study. The history of this patient precedes my use Patient Conclusion; "There's just nothing to be of Hemi-Sync tapes by several years. The patient was a afraid of. We'll be in touch more often." "By the way. Caucasian male, middle thirties, well-educated, suffer Doc, I'll be back and you can help me with my smoking ing severe stress from work-related activities. For several years he had been given Elixir Donnatal 30 problem." minutes prior to treatment, and extensive local anes- 4 Volume VIII, No. 1 HEMl-SYNC JOURNAL thetic in addition to the conscious sedation. All of this proved to be quite unsatisfactory. The "pain" could be HEMI-SYNC AND tolerated so he continued to permit treatment. When the Hemi-Sync program was introduced, he was PSYCHOTHERAPY the first patient to come to mind. He was given a Pre-Op tape to t^e home and play at least once every day. Dwight Eaton, Th.D., Ph.D. Prior to treatment, he began playing the tape when he left his home. (His wife drove.) V I S I T # ! Pre-Op Tape Extensive local anesthetic was administered and mul tiple crowns were prepared. Patient Comment: "I'm not afraid anymore." "I can sleep the night before I come to see you." "By the way, I've quit taking Valium before I go to work, I just play the tape." "I feel better without the dope." The following day, the patient's wife appeared at my office, on his orders, to confirm what he had stated the previous day. Patient Conclusion: "This is wonderful." "There's just nothing to be afraid of anymore." "It's a shame I just can't afford to continue." (His wife claims that this is not the case.) Dr. Eaton provides counseling services in his private clini CONCLUSION cal psychology practice in Honolulu, Hawaii. Realizing the potential of Hemi-Sync as a therapeutic adjunct, he For the most part, dentists venture forth to work in became a member of the Professional Division in an unmarked emotional and psychological minefield, February of 1989. A major objective of Dr. Eaton's ap without knowing how to defuse them. This is at least a plication of Hemi-Sync is to "assist in the coming-of-age beginning. Hemi-Sync seems to be the decisive factor in of the psychotherapeutic process." The following case his enhancing the effects of both local anesthetic and con tories are selected from Dr. Eaton's experiences utilizing scious sedation. The patients' comments were all highly positive. There were no cases where the patient was not Hemi-Sync with two clients, and himself [ed.: also see impressed in some manner. Could it be that Hemi-Sync BREAKTHROUGH, Vol. VII, No. 3, "Impact on alone can be adapted to meet the needs of the patient, Psychotherapy" by Dwight Eaton, Th.D., Ph.D., and regardless of their degree of fear, phobia, or anxiety, James Thomas, Ph.D.] without any chemical intervention? CASE #1 AUTHOR'S NOTE Subject: Female; early 30s; Caucasian; employed as a The first effort has accomplished more than was stripper in numerous local night clubs. dreamed possible. Subsequently, it has become a stand ard operating procedure in my practice of dentistry. Subject first presented in response to suggestion of a prior client engaged in the same profession as subject. Subject's stated initial cause for seeing me dealt with the physical abuse then being experienced by way of her current paramour. Extensive history-taking revealed repetitive occur rences of such interpersonal physical and psychological abusive treatment from former spouses and live-m boyfriends. Subject had been earning a comfortable Uving for at least the past twelve years as a nude performer in various clubs here, in the continental United States, and in Asia, at one point engaging in live sex acts with one of her former hus bands. Initially, she professed great admiration for her chosen profession and lifestyle. Heavy use of drugs and al cohol were also a part of her daily regimen. She is attractive, bright, and presents the objective appearance of being well- adjusted. No judgment was made relative to her chosen means of livelihood or lifestyle. Her deep-seated contempt for the female of her species became evident in numerous subtle ways. Her own quite poorly developed and negative Winter 1990 5 HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL ego-ideal [self-esteem] was most apparent. Her initial ex statement of his, "That is why finding the inner meaning of posure to Hemi-Sync produced a reported sense of great life is more important to the individual than anything else. calmness and relaxation plus a "miraculous" recovery from And why the process of individuation must be ^ven top the effects of a prior night of "hinging" [subject's words]. priority." The impetus for this being found in yet another The following week, again exposed to Hemi-Sync, she ex part of his pronouncements, "Part of the unconscious con perienced a most vivid "dream," the recall of which was sists of a multitude of temporarily obscured thoughts, im taped. With no suggestion from me, during the week be pressions, and images that—in spite of being lost—continue tween the second and third visit, the subject chose to write to influence our conscious minds." down the details of her encounter. Following is a summation. I am further moved by the primary theme of Adlerian Subject recalls being a 50-year-old male, named Amok [a psychology [Dr. Alfi-ed Adler] which asserts, "Humanity is most significant psychological disclosure, at no time revealed determined by compensation for feelings of inferiority." Not to the subject by me, the definition of which is, "... a that we are, in reality, inferior; but long ages of imprinting, psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by conditioning, and programming have conditioned us into a manic urge to murder"], residing in a super-cold and deso believing we are. And upon these beliefs we tend to con late area probably somewhere in Asia in the 1700s. struct a seemingly coherent concept of "reality," our Amok had a wife and two daughters; a sled, twelve do^, "civilization." We are not "inferior!" We behave as though and necessary survival paraphernalia. While traveling with we are—because we choose to believe we are. his dog team to take some frozen meat to relatives, among To the Greeks we owe, "As a man thinks, so does he be whom was an eight-year-old female, he encoimtered a come." At no time are we a set-piece. We, as all else in the violent snowstorm. Abandoning his team and sled, he sought cognated universe, are ever-becoming. Thoughts and things shelter in a cave whose entrance became blocked with blow are but aspects of the same thing. One unmanifested; the ing snow. As he had done with his own two daughters, he other, manifested. Effect must always follow cause. Here's to abandoned his twelve dogs. Amok states, "I did little to show a new day! That is—if we choose not to follow the way of the d i n o s a u r. my appreciation. I mainly separated myself from women which I did by focusing upon myself," [my male superiority]. Amok further states, "I froze to death in that cave and I CASE #2 had murdered my twelve faithful dogs." Amok continued, "I left my frozen cave [immediately after his demise] to view Subject: Male; age 35; Caucasian; professional bartender; the scene. My dogs were dead, frozen in the snow drifts. I seven-year resident of Hawaii remember that my heart felt like a stone. It couldn't feel a Subject presented quite recently with a complex of sex-re thing for the dead dogs, my ego wouldn't let it. My wife was lated dysfunctions, most anecdotal, one clinical. The clinical scared and worried for me. I cared little if nothing about her history is the excision of a single testis some five years pre well-being. I was a schmuck!" vious due to a suspected carcinomal incursion. No recur Primary subject stated, "My past life experience as Amok rence, extension, or experienced inhibition to date. has been a very humbling experience for me. I am far less The anecdotal history, not subject to the excision incident, quick to judge others, for example, my father," [who also is entirely consistent in his experience both prior to and sub abused her]. Others in the field of psycWatry will appreciate sequently. A summation of his voluntarily reported dysfunc her unconscious tendency to select male companions who tions are as follows: