CIA RDP96 00788r001300020001 6

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Approved For Release GIA-RDP96-00788R001300020001-6 pp ERSTE ST-CS-01-169-72 July 1972 of pain and in the treatment of neuroses and other functional disturbances (177). Professor Svyadoshch believes that autosuggestion may be used with success in cosmonaut training. In his opinion, autosuggestion can be of great value to those whose occupation makes particularly great demands on self-control, in particular, space crews. Svyadoshch reports that it takes five or six months of special exercises to master the autosuggestion technique. This makes a person "immune" to fear, worry, and emotional instability (178). 6. (U) The Soviets have shown interest in the ability of humans to alter their psychophysiological state by autogenous and exogenous suggestion. A study was conducted to determine the possibility of changing the activity of individual organs and systems of the human body by autogenous and exogenous suggestion. Six test subjects were exposed to 70-day bed rest. Three of the subjects served as controls, and the other three were trained for the first ten days to arbitrarily strain or relax individual muscular groups, with subsequent sleep. Myotonometric data showed that different muscle tonus indices could be reduced 5-25%. ECG, EEG, myotonometric, and actographic data showed that sleep occurred by the 7 to 15th minute during the second to third weeks of the experiment. By the fourth week the test subjects were able to arbitrarily achieve a state of relaxation and sleep at any time, regardless of the emo- tional reaction background. At such times arterial pressure and pulse rate were significantly lowered. By the fifth week the * test subjects attained similar results, although somewhat less effectively, by self-suggestion. Thus it is possible, by auto- genous conditioning, for a subject to attain deep refreshing sleep at a scheduled time even with a background of different stress factors. Most effective changes in the psychophysical state occurred during direct contact of the test subject with the instructor, but exogenous suggestion was performed almost as well by means of a radio or tape~recorder (179). 7. (U) The possibility of being able to predict suggestibility in man prior to engaging him in long term trials has intrigued the Russians. E.F. Mordinov and A.A. Genkin (180) have shown that the electroencephalogram may serve as one of the objective quantitative measures of suggestibility in man in the wakeful state. Thirty-nine subjects in quiet wakefulness were subjected to two EEG parameters: (1) average level of asymmetry of oscillations and (2) average period of activity. Significant differences were reported in the average level of asymmetry of 56 UNCLASSIFIED rr

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Approved For Release GIA-RDP96-00788R001300020001-6
pp ERSTE

ST-CS-01-169-72
July 1972

of pain and in the treatment of neuroses and other functional
disturbances (177). Professor Svyadoshch believes that autosuggestion
may be used with success in cosmonaut training. In his opinion,
autosuggestion can be of great value to those whose occupation

makes particularly great demands on self-control, in particular,

space crews. Svyadoshch reports that it takes five or six months

of special exercises to master the autosuggestion technique. This
makes a person "immune" to fear, worry, and emotional instability (178).

6. (U) The Soviets have shown interest in the ability of humans

to alter their psychophysiological state by autogenous and exogenous
suggestion. A study was conducted to determine the possibility

of changing the activity of individual organs and systems of the

human body by autogenous and exogenous suggestion. Six test

subjects were exposed to 70-day bed rest. Three of the subjects

served as controls, and the other three were trained for the

first ten days to arbitrarily strain or relax individual muscular
groups, with subsequent sleep. Myotonometric data showed that different
muscle tonus indices could be reduced 5-25%. ECG, EEG, myotonometric,
and actographic data showed that sleep occurred by the 7 to 15th

minute during the second to third weeks of the experiment. By the
fourth week the test subjects were able to arbitrarily achieve a

state of relaxation and sleep at any time, regardless of the emo-
tional reaction background. At such times arterial pressure and
pulse rate were significantly lowered. By the fifth week the *
test subjects attained similar results, although somewhat less

effectively, by self-suggestion. Thus it is possible, by auto-

genous conditioning, for a subject to attain deep refreshing

sleep at a scheduled time even with a background of different

stress factors. Most effective changes in the psychophysical

state occurred during direct contact of the test subject with

the instructor, but exogenous suggestion was performed almost

as well by means of a radio or tape~recorder (179).

7. (U) The possibility of being able to predict suggestibility
in man prior to engaging him in long term trials has intrigued
the Russians. E.F. Mordinov and A.A. Genkin (180) have shown
that the electroencephalogram may serve as one of the objective
quantitative measures of suggestibility in man in the wakeful
state. Thirty-nine subjects in quiet wakefulness were subjected
to two EEG parameters: (1) average level of asymmetry of
oscillations and (2) average period of activity. Significant
differences were reported in the average level of asymmetry of

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