6202C15 SHSpec-118  Prepchecking

        [Details on running of prepchecking.  See HCOB 1Mar62 "Prepchecking (A
        Class II Skill)" for an outline of the procedure.  Prepchecking can be
        used in a Problems Intensive, as given in tapes SHSpec-65 to 67 and
        pages i23 to i27, above, and well outlined in HCOB 9Nov61 "The
        Problems Intensive -- Use of the Prior Confusion".  Taking the
        terminals from the prior confusion, you can make up a zero1 question
        with, "What about your difficulty with (e.g.) Fred?" Then you can get
        the one1 question and do the withhold system on that to clear
        difficulties with Fred".  If you get a new "What" question, you could
        call it one2, etc.  You can also make zero questions out of the
        dynamics, e.g. zero1: "Are you willing to talk to me about yourself?",
        zero2: "Are you willing to talk to me about sex and family?", etc.]

     An auditor has to get the highest possible degree of relaxation on the
part of the PC.  If it is built up, the PC will stay in session come Hell or
high water, even if he is mad at you.  Prepchecking is particularly liable to
send the PC out of session because in it you are asking for very intimate
activities.  Also, just before he hits one of those big withholds, it is a
missed withhold and has been for several seconds at least, i.e. for as long as
he has spotted it and before he has told you.  He is actually influenced by it
before he hits it, but misattributes it to the auditor.  So it pays to clear
the auditor well, early on.

     When you are pulling withholds, "self" is the one the PC feels he is
damaging, because giving up withholds threatens personal survival.  Sometimes
pcs run themselves down and make the overt worse than it is in a desperate
effort to make it blow.

     If you are going to be handling some subject in the body of the session,
and it comes up on ruds, don't try to handle it with the ruds.  You can let
the PC know there is something there and that it is what is in the session.
If you are caught short without knowing the PC's havingness process, a nearly
sure-fire one is one that has him reaching and touching things within his
reach.  The only danger in it is, with some small number of pcs, that it takes
a long time to flatten and can turn on tactile pain.  If so, this process was
what was needed.

     Prepchecking solves an old problem: how to bring a PC who is reading
below 2.0 on the meter up.