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Anonymous 09/02/23(Sat)07:22:02 No.95748190▶>>95748431 >>95748435
>>95741156
this

people call it a scam (because obviously scientology is majorly fucked in the head) but the principles it's based are quite simple and IMO uncontroversial

basically somebody can ask you probing questions about an issue in your life, and your skin resistance will indicate when you mentally touched upon a painful thought but then quickly shuffled it back under the rug. basically thoughts and memories that you're protecting yourself from. a normal therapist will go by your words only, but somebody using a GSR meter can say "wait - stop - what were you just thinking about?", or knows when to stop on a specific subject and focus on it (vs. allowing the client to continue telling their story). we gloss over these entry points anytime we are discussing the problems in our lives. a super intuitive therapist could probably do what these do, but it allowed anybody, even the most rigid, logical, autistic person, to help others purely by observing skin resistance in response to questions.

there's a reason scientology caught on in the 1950s, because the basic process can work wonders. however, when you have an insane, power-mad person running the show, it is easily and inexorably abused to extract all kinds of blackmailable personal material from people looking for psychological help.
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Anonymous 09/02/23(Sat)07:54:13 No.95748599▶>>95748744 >>95750480
>>95748435
well it's not about knowing if you're telling the truth, if that's what you mean
it's simply converting otherwise subtle biological responses to a highly visible form (a giant needle) to give a human therapist a little bit of an edge in sticking to the ACTUAL problem, not getting lost in a maze of verbal evasion. which we are all unconscious experts at, because who enjoys pain?

I wouldn't be surprised if a polygraph could work just as well, if it was used in the same way. Or a tiny video camera monitoring pupil dilation (a la blade runner), or whatever. Any physiological response to stress, that's reasonably instantaneous, would work.

It's purely about visual feedback to help somebody guide the client directly into unpleasant historical junk they would rather not think about, and are well practiced at avoiding. There is nothing mystical or weird about it.

I know people have this knee-jerk reaction against anything associated with scientology - for good reason! - but the fact is, the fundamental practice of using skin resistance in a therapeutic setting, COULD help people. HOWEVER, the practice is so poisoned by its history with scientology, that nobody but ex-scientologists will touch it with a 10 foot pole.
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