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Jackpine Radical

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10. You're right.

Reply to drm604 (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 04:17 PM

Dec 2012

As one of my old clinical professors used to say, "All hypnosis is self-hypnosis."

And it is also axiomatic that you can't make anyone do things under hypnosis that they would find repugnant in an "ordinary" state of consciousness.

Nevertheless, there have always been rumors in the field that the CIA had found ways around these issues.

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