Article: Hypnotism: the fourth emergency service

"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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