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applications have to be made. Since you would be laying on your back and the operator would have to apply the spray, it is important to keep eyes closed and hold the nose as the liquid could be quite un- pleasant in either of these sensitive areas. A bottle costs about $1.75 but it lasts a long time.

Next I tried several psychological techniques. The ideal solution would be just to forget the pain but this is pretty difficult. However, you can to some degree drown it out. Trying to detach your- self from your postion of lying on the table with somebody jabbing needles into you can only be part- ially successful yet thinking about something that occupies your attention will push the painful stimuli into the background. Some real erotic thoughts will do wonders. If this doesn't work or wears off try planning something that you are going to do or build, something that requires some detailed planning. If you can get yourself involved in something like this it will be a big help.

Then there are physiological tricks: 1) Try imagining that you are putting the needle in instead of somebody else. This makes use of the common ex- perience that it hurts less to pry a splinter out of your own finger yourself than to have someone else do it. In effect you become responsible for the pain yourself and that isn't so bad. 2) Try imagining the exact spot on the other side equivalent to the one that is being hurt. Imagine this one being stuck too. In fact if you can take a sharp instrument with you and gently poke it into your face on the side oppo- site the one she is working on, you do two things. You distract your attention from anticipating her next jab as a painful thing and convert it into a kind of game in which you try to exactly match her point of operation. If you do use an instrument to actually touch the spot it becomes easier to correct it if you weren't quite right in the first place, but secondly, stimuli from the second area compete for attention in your brain with those from the

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