Editing Hypnosis (section)

=== Stage hypnosis ===
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Stage hypnosis is a form of entertainment, traditionally employed in a club or theatre before an audience. Due to stage hypnotists' showmanship, many people believe that hypnosis is a form of mind control. Stage hypnotists typically attempt to hypnotise the entire audience and then select individuals who are "under" to come up on stage and perform embarrassing acts, while the audience watches. However, the effects of stage hypnosis are probably due to a combination of psychological factors, participant selection, suggestibility, physical manipulation, stagecraft, and trickery.<ref>{{cite book | last = Yapko | first = Michael | author-link = Michael D. Yapko | title = Trancework: An introduction to the practice of Clinical Hypnosis | location = New York | publisher = Brunner/Mazel | year = 1990 | page = 28}}</ref> The desire to be the centre of attention, having an excuse to violate their own fear suppressors, and the pressure to please are thought to convince subjects to "play along".<ref name="Wagstaff">{{cite book |last=Wagstaff |first=Graham F. | name-list-style = vanc |year=1981 |title=Hypnosis, Compliance and Belief |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-40157-3}}{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}</ref> Books by stage hypnotists sometimes explicitly describe the use of deception in their acts; for example, [[Ormond McGill]]'s ''New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism'' describes an entire "fake hypnosis" act that depends upon the use of private whispers throughout.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}