In my experience, hypnotized subjects do not experience a "transfer of control to someone else" (p. 271) - namely, the hypnotist.
In the case of dissociation, actions are controlled automatically or unconsciously, while in hypnosis, control is given over to the hypnotist.
Figures are not maintained routinely, but our papers record two such complaints during the past year: one on psychotherapists; one on hypnotists.
That is the area which causes the greatest concern: that there should be better protection of the public in stage hypnotists' acts.
I am wondering how many local authorities since 1952 have refused to allow hypnotists to perform.
It only means that the hypnotist, whoever he is, must get authority from the local authority to put on his performance.
Secondly, there are the societies of stage hypnotists.
It puzzles me how a hypnotist is to discover before he hypnotises a person that that person is under 21 years of age.
