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a tape more easily than they can apply direct hypnosis. The Sleep-Learning Research Association reports some experiences of a Florida doctor in which response to this form of therapy resulted in a cure: A man who lost his voice at the age of fourteen, due only to psychological causes. For twenty-six years he could barely whisper. After sleep therapy, he recovered full use of his voice. A girl who suffered a nervous breakdown. She was a conscientious worker in the field of religion. Frustration in her work had led to the breakdown. Several weeks of sleep-therapy restored her to a normal, busy and happy life. A minister who had to give up his work because of a series of nervous breakdowns. After applying sleep-therapy he found his former capacities restored and he was able to return to work. Other successfully resolved cases included a chronic stutterer, an insomniac, an alcoholic and a case of loss of hearing. This doctor was particularly interested in a reaction common to patients using sleep-tapes which psychiatrists refer to as "ventilation." He feels it is a remarkable discovery which has answered many questions for him. "After using the tapes nightly for a time," he writes, "hidden complexes and causes of tension are brought to