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A friend told me yesterday of a hypnotist he once knew who tried to use hypnosis get sexual favors from his clients. Howwever, such a situation might well be less about hypnosis and more about denial, dis-association, plausible-deniability (which is quite separate from denial per se) and transference/counter-transference issues.
Of course Erickson broadens the definition of hypnosis to include all that, so we're back where we started. The ability of therapists to violate their clients is inherently so great that I can't imagine complicating matters by trying to force someone "hypnotically."
The Grinder/Bandler discussions of stage hypnotism are relevant here: some folks are simply obedient. It is the case that some people will do what they are told, bark like a dog, crow like a chicken, and claim they had no will to oppose the command---for reasons pertaining to their own ego needs, for reasons that have nothing to do with legitimate hypnotic phenomena. Erickson speaks about the damage done, to specific clients and to the practice of hypnosis in general, by uncritical observers accepting such phenomena as valid.
There is a delightful example in the Grinder/Bandler literature of syntactic ambiguity, "Hypnotizing hypnotists can by tricky." A few of my hypnosis-capaple friends have invited strange loops of the hypnotizing hypnotists sort, but I don't much enjoy that game. It seems an unavoidable part of being in the business, rather like gun-slinging in the old West. But it is a big part of what I've avoided all these years, the showing off, the "look what I can do to you" that seems so much a part of the hypnosis community and even more so in the N-LP community, what with all the talk of "irresistible" communication. Get up, walk away; madness starts with refusal to leave the field.
Update, 051222: It has come to my attention that this post was off-putting for one or two of the folks with whom I suspect I could quite enjoy playing hypnotizing hypnotists. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, and let the games begin.
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