Hypnotizing someone under the influence of nitrous oxide isn't experimental or pionoeering, it's been tried and studied for years and the studies have found no discernable change in the depth of hypnotic state in those under the influence of nitrous oxide.
James Braid in the 1830's used nitrous and hypnosis together effectively. I have a friend who has been a psychologist for 50+ years and studied under Miltion Erickso directly who has stated that in difficult to hypnotize people, nitrous is very helpful.
This studies concentrated mostly on the use of the hypnosis/nitrous combonation an alternative form of anesthesia for people who have experienced intraoperative awareness (a situation in which traditional anesthesia has little or no effect on the patient and the patient is thus totally aware during the surgery but is unable to communicate that), but the fact remains that no noticable difference between hypnosis and hypnosis with nitrous oxide was ever observed..
There have been many studies and some show that the actual quality of the hypnotic suggestion has everything to do with the effectiveness of the hypnosis. This was first noted in the 1870's in France (this link does not have that data).
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache...pnosis"+"alcoholism"&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3
Factors to do with the current psychophysiological state of the subject
These might include drug states, somnambulic states, meditational states, pre-sleep states,
hypnagogic states, states of daydream and fantasizing, “flashbacks” and states in which
prior episodes of traumatic stress are relived and reenacted, states produced by drumming
and dancing, states of relaxation, drunkenness, nitrous oxide intoxication, fatigue,
hypoxia, hypercarbia, “hyperempiria” euphoria, etc. and of course the state of “hypnosis”
if it proves useful and viable to mark one out. These states are usually supposed (with
varying degrees of supporting evidence) to enhance suggestibility directly. But there is
another way in which the subject’s psychophysiological state might favour the “taking”
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of suggestions, namely if certain of its experienced features are especially consonant
with the suggestions concerned.
The letter is not de facto approval. It's a form letter saying that your suggestion will be forwarded to the appropriate entity for review. The writer makes no judgment as to their estimation of the value of your presentation, they simply state that it will forwarded to someone else. It's a standard formality. Since this letter was sent in 1999 and you have posted no approval letter, I presume that nothing ever came of it.
The letter is a defacto approval. It says, "As we told you we are not able to try experimental treatments but we would carry your request forward to the state. We will be discussing this with representatives from the State Department of Mental Health and we will provide you a response in writing."
Is it reasonable to suppose that the Director of the Santa Barbara County Mental Health Department and the Chief Medical Doctor of that department would "carry your request forward to the state" if they DID NOT approve of the proposed treatment? No, it is not.
I have sued the superiors of the Director of the County Mental Health Department , specifically the supervisor who's district the hospital is in, for failing to respond to a
Freedom of Information Act request for the response in writing, no response.. This was after sevreal month of calls to the Director. I'm quite sure that the director was ordered NOT to communicate with me by the supervisor. The suit as filed by myself and 3 others in order to stop alcoholism and substance abuse in their families.
One of the co plaintiffs family members was found decomposing behind a local shopping center on October 14, 2,006. The Federal courts are colluding with the County to deprive us of justice (historically shown) and the states citizens of a lifesaving treatment A decision to dismiss our case with prejudice has been appealed inthe Ninth Circuit.
It is not a form letter. It does follow protocols and policy.
BTW, my proposed treatment has variations on the historical uses which make it much more potent.
