Plague Doctor

The dim light in the test room was warm, and Gu Jun lay on this soft leather bench. His body slipped into it for a rare comfort.

“Mr. Gu, let me call you Arjun.” Sister Liang laughed and said, "I've known Django about you. You're excellent. ”

Gu Jun can see that Liang is establishing a therapeutic relationship with him with a warm, understanding, caring and respectful attitude. The atmosphere was created and his psychological defenses were weakened before other work could be carried out. But Liang's sincere, confident smile and generous behavior are really very infectious.

“I'll put the instrument on you.” Sister Liang first wore a pair of gloves and then a soft mask. They all had multiple white sensors attached to his skin and a bunch of cables of various colors attached to the instrument next to them.

After a series of recent psychosocial training, Gu Jun can also see what this is.

These black gloves are called "Skin Electrical Response Magnification Monitors”. By reflecting electrodes in the palm or fingertips of the subject, the electrodermal response (GSR) detects changes in their sweat gland activity and sympathetic nervous system, thus measuring some of the more credible parameters. GSR has always been applied to instruments such as panic detectors.

These gloves are patented by NASA and are more precise in technology. As for this grey soft leather hood, it is for real-time EEG monitoring.

The psychological group also has equipment that uses electric field technology, but the S-value test does not appear to be necessary. The methods and criteria used for the S-value test are also clearly different from the personality test.

With a round mirror hanging over the wall, Gu Jun glanced at it. Is that a one-way perspective mirror? Is there someone else watching him?

Liang noticed his move and smiled. “It's just a mirror.” When she walked over, she took the mirror off and put it on the ground, and behind the mirror was a wall. Sister Liang pointed to an upper corner, “There is a camera there that will record every test. But that's just for your profile, nobody's watching you, and now I'm the only one watching you. ”

She and her good face were harmless, like an old lady walking in a square, but Gu Jun suspected removing the mirror was a specially designed step.

Because there's no reason to put a mirror there, it's obvious, but it doesn't match the overall setting of the room. If you are not careful with Zixuan like that, you need not say anything; but to deal with someone like him, Liang will voluntarily expose it. This is a psychological suggestion: Liang Sister should be honest with you, and you should be honest with her...

“Don't worry.” Sister Liang laughed again and walked back and sat down in the chair, "you can talk to me if you have any thoughts. ”

“Hmm.” Gu Jun responded, indeed...

People have the ability to accept cues, and "you can” is a typical randomness cue. Django had been implying to them all along the way, saying “yes” to everything. Sister Liang is now repeating the suggestion, allowing him to focus on the idea of opening his heart.

“Jun, you don't have to think so much.” Sister Liang laughed, can't you see the young man is suspicious yet, “I know you have been trained in psychology, so I'm not going to play any tricks with you, trust me, relax, I can trust you. ”

Gu Jun thought again, this is definitely a hint...

Anyway, he's exhaled, and he's lying here. Forget it. He's got to take a test. Maybe there's something new?

“Sister Liang, I try to cooperate, but some thoughts emerge that I can't control. ”

“It's okay, you're not the only one. A lot of people are more nervous than you, and there's nothing wrong with that. ”

Liang's laughter hinted at her authority and seemed to be random: “Let's talk first, I'll read your self-filled questionnaire, know that you are outside of medicine, favorite movie, and if you ever want to be a doctor, become a director. I like movies, too. Have you seen any good movies lately? ”

“Hmm...” Gu Jun came up with the idea that he was using his hobby to establish a therapeutic relationship and seemed to be hypnotizing.

Next to Liang's desk, a small pendulum clock kept ringing at the same rhythm.

“I haven't seen a movie in a while.” He's telling the truth, "I don't know why, last time I looked... six months ago. I'd love to see Beetlejuice again," The Beatles Juice, "an old Hollywood movie, also known as" The Great Shadow Master. "”

“Oh, why?” Sister Liang asked Wen that he was willing to talk, so the verification work began to move in the right direction.

“Interesting... the film was made by Tim Bolton, his typical style, quirky, weird, but cute... and the actress was played by Verona Reed, and the character was unique, everyone was afraid of ghosts, and she was happy to see it. When she showed up, she sat on the couch and was carried out by the movers, and she was shooting around with cameras, which was fun. ”

Gu Jun spoke and said more, knowing that Sister Liang was hypnotizing him, but may he be hooked.

“So many interesting movies, why do you want to revisit this one, for other reasons?” Liang asked.

“Well, I just wanted to know... if there were supernatural beings in the world, would they be as cute as the ghosts in this movie...”

“Cute? What do you mean?”

Sister Liang talked to him about the movie, and also talked about some of the relevant topics that had been disseminated, but did not talk about any medicine, and never made him feel any urgency.

Time gradually passed by half an hour, Gu Jun gradually calmed down, really relaxed, voluntarily entered a hypnotic state, immersed in the fascinating character that Sister Liang hinted at him, as if he was no longer Gu Jun, a medical dog.

But unlike some of the hypnosis that has been interpreted by film and television, hypnosis has not become confusing. The hypnotized person's brain is always awake, except that normal planning functions have declined, the mind is highly focused, and attention is highly selective. Not responding to external stimuli, but extremely sensitive to all the demands of hypnotists.

In terms of EEG performance, hypnosis is is neither the same as any stage of sleep nor the normal mode.

“Hmm...” Liang looked at the values on the EEG monitor screen on the work desk and knew that Gu Jun had been hypnotized.

People like Gu Jun are most likely to be hypnotized, but Gu Jun is unusual and has high stability, and the degree of hypnosis is easily diminished.

Liang knew that she had to operate carefully and slowly, “Ah-jun, the test is simple, I will let you do some situational shocks to see how your body works. If you don't like it, you can put an end to this situation, okay? ”

“Okay.” said Gu Jun softly.

Sister Liang has a "shock scale", which lists some common scenarios from low to high, such as “You witnessed a tragic accident” and "You killed your friends and relatives”. These scenarios bring the subject into a state of extreme anxiety, panic, and fear.

Then she can see the body function data in detail from the instrument.

And when the S value of the test is too low, even in the face of low impact situations, the test will be extremely frightened, even constantly vomiting, chestnuts, screaming. This is the first phase of the test, which calms down depending on the response being tested and how long it takes to exhaust the panic (allowing it to exhaust the panic itself as a therapy), thus assessing a corresponding set of values.

The second stage is to treat the subject and then to evaluate another set of values based on the effect of the treatment.

The two sets of values are combined with each other to calculate the S value being tested.

Normally, at the beginning, Liang would expose the test to high-impact situations, such as Wang Ruoxiang, who had just been tested, and Leung would expose her from the beginning to "see herself to relatives infected with Xenorrhoea disease and die from failure of amputation surgery”.

Wang Ruoxiang was quite painful, and her experience in the operating room did not have any effect on her. It was good that her S-value was still very high at the end, 90.

But because of Gu Jun's peculiarity, Liang did not dare to follow the rules, afraid to wake him up suddenly, or his S-value was very low - there was a warning in his file that his mental state was strange - and instead, he was irritated by the high impact.

So Liang dared only to start with a low impact test and gently preached:

“You walk down the inner hallway of the hospital operating room, you see two surgical beds in front of you, you walk over slowly, you see two bodies lying on each of those surgical beds… you were involved in the treatment, but the two patients who died after the operation failed, the wife, the little boy. ”

Gu Jun's breathing was a little quicker, his slightly closed eyelids beating...

Looking at several instrument screens, Liang frowned and the situation did not look good.