Why is hypnosis not used in police interrogations?

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There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
 
first thing comes to mind is that it would not be any reliable...

Do you mean not reliable in the sense that it is susceptible to hypnotic sugestions, or not reliable like lie detectors are not reliable? Or a third way?

unreliable because you can never really know if a person is under hypnosis or not...
unless of course you can detect the unique brain activity...
but then if you could detect the brain activity with such an accuracy, you would not need the hypnosis to begin with, i would guess...
as far as i know...
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

People can absolutely get hypnotized against their will. Before cameras were common in shops, stage hypnotists often went and got for example cashiers to hand cash to them out of their tills. And the cashiers had no memory that they did it even when they got fired for theft.

And hypnotic trance can accompany a trauma too. Often the entry point of post traumatic stress disorder.

All against at the will.
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

People can absolutely get hypnotized against their will. Before cameras were common in shops, stage hypnotists often went and got for example cashiers to hand cash to them out of their tills. And the cashiers had no memory that they did it even when they got fired for theft.

no they can't.

and it's easy to confuse a cashier

 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

Yes you can hypnotize people against their will. For example force the eye to focus on two things in the same time. This is physically impossible so an instantaneous hypnotic trance results. The victim doesn't even realize. Medical hypnotists term this rapid induction techniques.
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

People can absolutely get hypnotized against their will. Before cameras were common in shops, stage hypnotists often went and got for example cashiers to hand cash to them out of their tills. And the cashiers had no memory that they did it even when they got fired for theft.

no they can't.

and it's easy to confuse a cashier


Yrs they can. And if you get more time with your intended victim, like if you are her coworker or family member or neighbor, the easier it gets, because the brain gradually breaks down in frequent repeated hypnosis. That is why medical literature restricts hypnosis to be short and only once a week for ethical practitioners.
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

Yes you can hypnotize people against their will. For example force the eye to focus on two things in the same time. This is physically impossible so an instantaneous hypnotic trance results. The victim doesn't even realize. Medical hypnotists term this rapid induction techniques.

no you can't.

medical hypnotists have willing subjects.
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

People can absolutely get hypnotized against their will. Before cameras were common in shops, stage hypnotists often went and got for example cashiers to hand cash to them out of their tills. And the cashiers had no memory that they did it even when they got fired for theft.

no they can't.

and it's easy to confuse a cashier


Yrs they can. And if you get more time with your intended victim, like if you are her coworker or family member or neighbor, the easier it gets, because the brain gradually breaks down in frequent repeated hypnosis. That is why medical literature restricts hypnosis to be short and only once a week for ethical practitioners.
prove it.

give me a link to a scientific study that proves people can be hypnotized against their will
 
There is probably a good reason.

And why doesn't the FBI and the CIA use hypnosis to interrogate?

They spent millions to develop drugs for interrogation such as LSD and so on. They also use lie detectors. But not hypnosis. Why is that?
people cannot be hypnotized against their will.

and FYI "lie detectors" do not detect lies and are based on junk science

People can absolutely get hypnotized against their will. Before cameras were common in shops, stage hypnotists often went and got for example cashiers to hand cash to them out of their tills. And the cashiers had no memory that they did it even when they got fired for theft.

no they can't.

and it's easy to confuse a cashier


Yrs they can. And if you get more time with your intended victim, like if you are her coworker or family member or neighbor, the easier it gets, because the brain gradually breaks down in frequent repeated hypnosis. That is why medical literature restricts hypnosis to be short and only once a week for ethical practitioners.
prove it.

give me a link to a scientific study that proves people can be hypnotized against their will

Ok. Here is one scientific study from the Human Givens Institute, but YouTube too is full of them by people who are proud to do it because it is against the will of their victims. For example you shake the hand of your new friend and in the same time you wave your other hand close to her eyes. Classic rapid induction, instantaneous trance.

 

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