Summary: In the name of entertainment, TV mentalist, showman and ‘experimenter’ Derren Brown’s latest TV show ‘The Assassin’ attempted to show that someone could commit murder of a celebrity as a result of being hypnotised to do so. Can this really happen? are there any real-life examples of such outside of TV? What is the evidence for and against the notion of hypnotic coercion? Most importantly, can we make people engage in criminal acts using hypnosis? All answered right here!
