Some confucian here...

I came across this recently and wondered if anyone could provide some background/ details around Ericksons'thinking on 'the Japanese mind-set',and his work with Meade on this.
How might this relate to doing hypnotherapy in Japan (where I am now learning Aikido) ?
Thank-you for any thoughts on this.

Markus.

"Dr. Erickson was found in the files and he had, you know, the way it appeared he had used hypnosis to get a Japanese colonel to confess all of the secrets of state. He said no, he didn't do that, Margaret Meade told him that the Code Of Bushido said that if you touched these guys on the top of the head they had to commit suicide, "So I talked to this guy, there was a Marine with a rifle on him, he couldn't get anywhere, he was locked in a room, he could see the rifleman aiming at him through the windows, if he had done anything he would've been a dead man, and I said to the guy, "Okay, you're dead now, tell me the secrets", and the guy spilled the beans. So, that was what I learned from Erickson, that the context..."

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Re:Some confusion here..., by Steve Lankton, 11/21/03 Re:Some confucian here..., by Markus, 11/24/03 Re:Some confusion here..., by Steve Lankton, 11/25/03 Bateson and Mead during W.W.II., by Jeffrey Zeig, 12/02/03

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