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Article: Hypnotism: the fourth emergency service
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"It's possible for you to decide yourself how to perceive the
world," announced Paul McKenna in the investigation of the
"phenomenal powers of hypnotism", which went out under the Network
First (ITV) banner last night. I decided it would be nice to
perceive a world without Paul McKenna, but I don't seem to be
suggestible enough. Grim reality triumphed over wishful thinking.
Network First is the most wildly variable of all the documentary
strands: one week it will serve as a fig leaf, properly concealing
Carlton's naked commercialism, the next it is a spangled posing
pouch, complete with peekaboo flap. But it has never before been
quite as vulgarly skimpy as "Paul McKenna's Secret World of ...
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