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A live corpse

It was difficult to convince him

Robert Dilts tells the story of a man who believed he was a corpse. His psychiatrist, in an effort to prove the belief wrong, asked if corpses bleed. The man said, "No, they do not". 

The man then agreed to an experiment, and the good doctor pricked his finger with a needle. The man looked at his bleeding finger and said, "I was wrong, corpses do bleed."

Will McDonald & Richard Bandler

In An Insider's Guide to Submodalities

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