HYPNOSIS: A POTENT THERAPY FOR CERTAIN DISORDERS OF VOICE AND SPEECH

Abstract

At the present time there is an increasing emphasis placed on the correction of voice and speech defects by colleges, universities and public school systems; there is also an awakening interest in the subject on the part of numerous physicians, medical schools and hospitals. Every one appreciates speech as a medium for social communication. All men from the lowliest laborer to the most dignified professional man admire and respect a person possessing the ability to express himself properly. In fact, it is more often remarked that the speech of a physician is more tonic than his medicine. As a writer appropriately stated, "the human voice is the most delicately tuned musical instrument that God has created. It is capable of cultivation beyond the dreams of those who have given it no thought. It may be made to express every emotion in the gamut of human sensation from abject misery to