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Most hypnotists comment that people have got to want to be hypnotised for it to work. However, Derren Brown (who certainly seems to be the greatest expert in the world at mind control judging from his programmes on Channel 4 in the UK) can clearly hypnotise people who do not want to be hypnotised. In his stage show Something Wicked This Way Comes, the final performance of which was first broadcast shortly before Christmas 2006, he proved that his subjects were not stooges by throwing a cuddly toy (monkey) into the audience, which was thrown to someone else who then threw it to a third person, as a form of random selection. Whereas some (perhaps the majority) of people in the audience wanted to be hypnotised by him, that could not be true of everybody so to be confident of his skills working he needs to be able to use them on those who don’t.
Derren’s first series on Channel 4 was called Derren Brown: Mind Control but he had later series called Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind, and claimed that his abilities were merely tricks based on things like misdirection. His claims about his abilities are inconsistent, and (as I did not realise at the time but looking back now it is obvious) his explanation for how he performed one of his acts at the end of Something Wicked This Way Comes (in which a particular word that he predicted in advance was picked out of a random newspaper) was a complete lie. Derren stated that he had filmed the performance and showed edited highlights, with him surreptitiously inserting phrases like “Daily Mail” in some of his dialogue. You were led to believe that your subconscious had interpreted the phrases to make more sense and that your conscious mind had not taken them in. I even gave that explanation in a version of the introduction of my book
Revolution Destroyed? that I wrote shortly after seeing the programme. However, it is inconceivable that the entire theatre audience was fooled in that way, as well as everybody who watched the programme on TV. Furthermore, although he did give an explanation for the page chosen in the newspaper, he did not explain how when the page was ripped up the correct piece of paper was chosen nor how the appropriate word on the page was selected.In my opinion, Derren has some mechanism for reading the brainwaves of his subjects, and interacts with
