Hypnosis?

[Xavier]

Is hypnosis a real phenomenon or just as fake as faith healing?
I'm not sure on this so was looking for opinions.

If hypnosis could actually do what some people say it can would the implications for psychology, psychiatry etc be huge, and would it not be used frequently by doctors

I guess theres the argument only a handful of people can actually perhaps do it.

I would guess its fake though tbh

[thesummerqueen]

http://www.skepdic.com/hypnosis.html

[Diamond]

They actually did an episode about this on Mythbusters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters...)#Hypnosis