Like, everyone talks about hypnosis is fake, recovered memories are fake. The hypnosis just induced false memories into people.
Hold up though, we the power to do total recall and people don't talk about it? What is the MIT skeptic community psy-op is going on with this.
My understanding is that hypnosis is an altered state of heightened suggestibility, which can't really be triggered without consent. What happens between a 'therapist' and 'patient' though idk, I wouldn't assume a therapist is making their client think theyre a chair
Having hypnotized people before... yeah it's a pretty whack phenomenon but you're not really making them do anything they really wouldn't. Generally in a stage hypnosis show, all the people up there are on a spectrum between very suggestible and open to goofing around to just playing along because they don't want to interrupt the show.