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Although the hypnotist can introduce practically any distortion of sensory perception, there is no evidence that he can control the "will" of the subject, Orne said. Psychologists have tended to adopt one of two positions concerning the legal problems posed by this question of control...
...excavates two late eighteenth century novels, Lewis' The Monk and Godwin's St. Leon, which portray the isolated Jew as black magician, and traces their lineage from Cartaphilus to DuMaurier's Svengali. In Trilby "the myths of Judas and of Cartaphilus met in the figure of a Victorian bogey-hypnotist...
...Edward Henderson is a middle aged, mild little accountant who envies his fishing pal's fine body, the virility of his 25 years, his casual good looks. Roger, a simple mechanic, in turn is envious of Henderson's tidy income, his complacent marriage. Henderson is the amateur hypnotist, Roger the willing subject, and one night when their mutual covetousness is at its height and hypnosis is at work, the switch takes place. Author Glaskin is the kind of fantasist who keeps things on a plane so practical that anyone can sympathize with his heroes' troubles. Henderson...
Tranceformation. In Albany, N.Y., when Newlywed Irish Lashin, 20, went back to her parents' home, after eloping, to pick up some clothes and failed to return, her husband, Hypnotist Albert M. Herman, 33, charged that her parents, who opposed the marriage, had taken her to a professional rival "who put her under some sort of hypnotic spell...
...subject often is motivated by what Dr. Orne calls "the demand characteristics of the situation." In an experiment, for instance, the subject feels he has to cooperate with the experimenter for "the sake of science," and thus his behavior in trance is motivated by a desire to help the hypnotist...