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Mesmerised is an Australian television series involving hypnotist Peter Powers traveling around Australia with actors and volunteers willing to be hypnotised by Powers and made to perform amusing and often embarrassing acts.
Steve G. Jones [1] is a clinical hypnotherapist based in Savannah, Georgia. [2] He also has offices in New York and California. [3] He has created numerous recordings and publications about hypnosis, self-awareness and the law of attraction.
Paul McKenna (born 8 November 1963) [1] is a British hypnotist, behavioural scientist, television and radio broadcaster and author of self-help books.. McKenna has hosted self-improvement television shows and presents seminars in hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, weight loss, motivation, the Zen meditation Big Mind, Amygdala Depotentiation Therapy (ADT) and the Havening techniques.
Stage hypnosis evolved out of much older shows conducted by mesmerists and other performers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Scottish surgeon James Braid developed his technique of hypnosis after witnessing a stage performance by the traveling Swiss magnetic demonstrator Charles Lafontaine (1803–1892) in November 1841.
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Powers has made several TV shows; The Power of One, which is filmed in Australia, and Street Hypnosis which was filmed in the UK. He made five one-hour TV specials for UK's Channel 5, entitled The Naughty, Naughty Hypnoshow and recorded two one-hour TV specials for Network 9 in Australia in which celebrities were hypnotised.
Covert hypnosis, like "Ericksonian Hypnosis", [clarification needed] "operates through covert and subtle means... to reach deeper levels of consciousness than are touched by the surface structure of language". [12] It is the concept that an individual, 'the hypnotist,' can control another individual's behavior via gaining rapport. [13]
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