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Often the question of lay hypnosis is asked: this is a difficult one, because any-one can hypnotize -- it is all in the subject, after all, not in the hypnotist. You can't prevent people from hypnotizing each other at cocktail parties and night-club shows. But lay hypnotists have no business be treating patients.