University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1984
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Armed with hypnosis, police dredge for vital details
By AMY BALDING Staff Reporter
The pendulum rocks methodically back and forth as you fall deeper and deeper and deeper . . .
This image of a hypnotist is not reserved exclusively for fortune tellers, mystics and gypsies. The Lawrence Police Department relies on hypnosis, an induced sleeplike state, as an effective way to get more detailed descriptions of rage, robbery or arson suspects.
The police department will only hypotize consenting victims or witnesses in an attempt to
TO MINIMIZE THE chances of unreliable information, Donoho said that the subject must consent to hypnosis and that all the information provided to him must be verified through police investigation.
get more detailed descriptions of suspects, said
Departmenr Don Monolo of the Lawrence Police
Department.
The belief that comments from reluctant witnesses under hypnosis are unreliable because the subjects often remember distorted versions of actual events has been well documented. Subjects often appear to be speaking with great confidence, but they are deceived themselves, one article stated.
"Hypnosis has worked 90 percent of the times that we have tried it," Donoho said. He said the police considered a hypnosis session successful if they got more information as a result of the session than the person could have given before hypnosis.
The police have hypnotized many rape, hit-and-run and robbery victims, because they often subconsciously block details of a traumatic incident out of their minds.
DONOHO the RECENT HYPNOSIS of a police-man's wife, who was a victim of a hit-and-run accident, flushed out information that led to an arrest. Donoho said the suspect held a grudge
against the policeman, so he ran down the officer's wife.
Before hypnosis, the woman described the car as a large, light-colored vehicle. While under hypnosis, she described a white, medium-sized car with a black vinyl top and a black interior, with white sidewall tires and one hubcap cover, described the car after then stated that she had her memorized his license-plate number when she saw him at the grocery store.
Donoho said further investigation revealed that her description matched the owner of the car and that he had a motive to be after the woman's husband.
DONOHO, ONE OF THE two trained hypnotists in the Lawrence-Topeka area, has hypnotized about 70 victims and witnesses of crimes.
Donoho said he did not use the swaying-watch method to induce hypnosis, but instead asked a subject to picture himself filming the incident on a television camera. To help a subject recall a subject's images another scenario in which the subject pictures himself in a time machine on a beach
Either method often enables a person to overcome the trauma of an event, because he plays the role of an observer and does not directly experience the incident, Donoho said.
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