Doctor: Picking Up Attributes in the Hospital-Chapter 505 - 402: Observer Throughout—Deep Hypnosis! (Part 2)
"Alright."
Liu Meng was puzzled, but she still nodded her head.
Time quickly reached two in the afternoon.
At the branch’s entrance, Zhao Heng and Liu Meng got out of the car, and the driver waited at the door.
The last time he drove to this place to drop off a patient, the driver felt eerie, and since this time there was no patient to deliver, he flatly refused to go inside.
After entering from the hospital entrance, Zhao Heng saw many mental patients wearing white striped gowns. It looked much like an ordinary mental hospital, but Zhao Heng always felt there was something hidden here he couldn’t quite describe.
Shortly afterwards, Zhao Heng and Liu Meng arrived at Director Gao Qilan’s office.
Inside the office, Zhao Heng saw Gao Qilan sitting on the sofa, looking at a stack of documents in her hand. Today, Gao Qilan appeared as clean and neat as ever, with her gold-rimmed glasses and exquisite features. Her intellectual elegance also gave off a sharp, impactful sensation.
This kind of sharp impact was rather rare on women, especially on a female doctor. It was hidden yet noticeable.
Seemingly sensing someone entering, Gao Qilan raised her head, and upon seeing Zhao Heng, she smiled slightly, appearing very pleased as she said, "You’re here, please come and sit."
Her words gave a feeling as if she and Zhao Heng were quite familiar, but in reality, they had only met once.
Zhao Heng nodded, bringing Liu Meng along, they entered the office and sat on the sofa.
"The patient is still preparing for the hypnosis; it will take about another hour or so. Feel free, Director Zhao."
Gao Qilan said nonchalantly, treating Zhao Heng as if he were a guest.
"Director Gao, how has the patient’s treatment been lately?"
Zhao Heng asked directly.
Communication between doctors is straightforward—no pleasantries or small talk. First, because everyone is very busy, and second, because becoming an excellent doctor means being accustomed to efficient communication.
Simply put, it’s about saying the least amount of words while conveying the maximum amount of information.
"This patient had not previously undergone hypnosis or psychological treatment, so the results have been quite good with no resistance."
Gao Qilan said slowly.
As she spoke, she watched Zhao Heng closely, observing him carefully.
Ever since Zhao Heng cured the son of the richest man, Ma Jianteng—Ma Xiaochen, Zhao Heng’s reputation had spread widely, so much so that even at this remote branch, Gao Qilan had heard plenty about Zhao Heng’s recent achievements.
Thus, she was particularly interested in Zhao Heng, or more directly, in the structure of his brain.
After all, people born with high intelligence are rare, but they still represent a certain proportion of the population.
Yet having exceptionally high intelligence and being able to demonstrate it in practical operations—to perform equally well in application—is extremely uncommon.
In the words of Mr. Yangming’s educational philosophy, such a person embodies a high degree of Unity of Knowledge and Action. In modern psychological terms, it’s the strong unification of high perceptual ability, thinking ability, and execution ability.
"Director Gao, what method will be used for deep hypnosis?"
Sitting beside, Liu Meng asked with great interest.
During her studies, she found psychology and hypnosis very intriguing, so she attended all of Gao Qilan’s lectures whenever possible.
However, limited by her own talent, when delving deeper, she realized she had no special aptitude for hypnosis, especially in the aspects of psychological profiling and treatment, so she regretfully chose clinical practice.
Liu Meng had some understanding of basic hypnosis methods.
Hypnosis is essentially a process where the hypnotist uses certain techniques to lead the subject into a special consciousness state characterized by daze and compliance.
As early as over two thousand years ago, records of hypnosis can be found in theological scriptures once humanity developed written language.
In the first century AD, Greek temple priests used methods like staring at ancient mirrors and inhaling sulfur vapor to achieve a hypnotic state for divination.
In ancient Chinese temples, similar phenomena existed. Some itinerant tricksters often used this method for performances to captivate people.
The core of hypnotic induction is verbal prompting. Therefore, suggestive verbal prompts must always be accurate, clear, simple, and firm at all times.
Ambiguous or unclear language would only confuse the subject and make it difficult to enter a hypnotic state.
There are many methods of hypnotic induction, commonly including: the gaze method, ideomotor method, relaxation method, imagination method, sleep method, auditory method, and touch method.
Thus, Liu Meng was very curious about what method Gao Qilan would use to perform hypnosis on this patient.
"What do you think hypnosis is? Is it verbal prompting? Or simply putting the patient to sleep and weaving a dream during sleep?"
Gao Qilan did not answer Liu Meng’s question; instead, she smiled slightly and asked back.
What she mentioned were conventional hypnosis techniques.
However, for such a challenging patient requiring constant application of local anesthetic gel to control symptoms, conventional hypnosis methods would certainly be ineffective.
"Considering the patient’s situation, should verbal induction and dream hypnosis be conducted simultaneously?"
Liu Meng probed, as her understanding of hypnosis suggested that using these two methods together was already quite impressive.
"Director Zhao, what do you think?"
Listening to Liu Meng’s response, Gao Qilan slightly shook her head, turning to ask Zhao Heng instead.
"Construction and modification, or you might say ’rewriting’. "
Zhao Heng replied calmly, answering briefly.
"Yes, rewriting. Director Zhao has profound knowledge of hypnosis and psychology."
Gao Qilan agreed, nodding. Although it was only a simple "rewriting," these words were the core of her deep hypnosis for the patient this time.
One theory suggests that human behavior is actually controlled by pre-written programs.
This theory holds practical significance because the human body operates through a variety of extremely complex composite biological programs.
The human body is unimaginably complex. Take eating as a single action—people consume all sorts of strange foods daily, which are gradually broken down in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine into their most basic states; amino acids, sugars, water, fats, vitamins, salts, etc.
Then, these different substances are transported through the bloodstream to organs and tissues that need these nutrients, with not a gram more or less, and then reused for synthesizing other molecules or generating energy, again with precision.
At this step alone, no human-made machine can achieve this, let alone with such accuracy.
Thus, we can ponder: if the human body is controlled by complex internal composite programs, what about human thoughts and consciousness?
Are they not also governed by equally strong internal logic and programming?
There’s an old saying, "Sacrificing the body is easy, but forsaking one’s views is hard."
This means sometimes for various reasons, giving up one’s body isn’t so difficult, but abandoning one’s own beliefs—one’s conviction—can be more challenging than facing death calmly.
"Rewriting? Human consciousness and thought can be rewritten?"
Liu Meng was startled by these words. "Rewriting"—these two words, when applied to the realm of human consciousness treatment, the confidence it entails is unsettling upon reflection.
"Why not? From a programming perspective, human thought is indeed writable."
Gao Qilan smiled slightly as she spoke.
This was the primary reason why she left university and nestled in such a remote branch.
It can also be said, this is the direction of her research. This research direction can only be pursued unnoticed in such an unacknowledged, remote branch.
