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person yesterday."Repressed material is released fluently, and the saving in time is*tremendous.In my experience the method is much more successful in re- vealing repressed incidents and particularly repressed emotions than the procedure of narco-analysis, using intravenous barbiturate.If partial resistance is encountered during the session, a few further breaths of 20% carbon dioxide will usually be sufficient to overcome this.The patient is able to leave as soon as the session has ended, and there are no complaints of headache and giddiness such as are found after the use of higher concentrations of carbon dioxide or one of the other methods of inducing abreaction.It is therefore a suit- able method for use in the treatment of out-patients.Case 3 is quoted to indicate the value of the treatment in even the most chronic types of psychoneurosis.The applications of this method are undoubtedly much more diverse than those of the abreactive techniques which were developed originally to deal with the casulalties of war.SummaryA simple method of producing abreaction and liberation of repressed memories by the use of carbon dioxide is described.This method is perfectly safe, and is particularly suitable for use in the treatment of out-patients.Three illustrative cases are reported.