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© -•3- v. The major continuing effects of the dynamic implant are: (a) progressive problem identification; (b) resulting reorganization of behavioral patterns; (c) negative evaluation of neurotic patterns present in the cue communication used in driving. C. Continued study of the effects of repetition on the patient of his own verbal signals opened up an additional line. of inquiry. This was based upon ths finding that a given verbal signal conveys considerably more than its verbal content. Special apparatus was built to explore this new field of ultra-conceptual communication. The following findings were reported at the 1956 meeting of the American Psychopathological Association: i. That signals are made which are not conceived as such by the signaler, at least at the tins he makes them. ii. That signals are received which are not conceived as such by the listener, at least at the titas that ha first listens, iii. That a range of signals may be made which will only at times be conceived by the signaler and the listener as such. iv. The ability" of both - the signaler and the listener to recognize signals may be increased and also decreased. v. It is probable that there is a range of signals which cannot be understood by either, but which may, nonetheless, evoke an appropriate response in the listener. Our studies now turned to attempts to establish lasting changes in the patient's behavior, using verbfcl signals of a predetermined nature and of our own devising. After considerable experimentation, we have developed a procedure which in the most successful case has produced behavioral changes lasting up to two months. The procedure requires: i. The breaking down of ongoing patterns of the patient's behavior by means of parti cularly intensive electroshocks (depatterning) .