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Salter's alcoholic patients condition themselves to hate liquor by repeated doses of self-hypnosis. In treating neurotics, the psychologist helps patients relieve themselves by making a clean breast, under hypnosis, of their unconscious fears and troubles. In What Is Hypnosis Salter offers a breath-taking project: teaching autohypnosis to soldiers. Says he: "Simple mass procedures applied to soldiers could quickly filter out one of five or at worst one of eight who can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anesthetized soldiers going into battle."