Originally posted by beanland

I don't know why they think that... Maybe they're just scared of it. A lot of stuff in the media today makes it look like hypnotism is just used by evil people to get other people to do what they want.
Umm, maybe it's because I live under a rock, but what in the media portrays hypnotism as evil? And by what rationale could a person think hypnotism, especiallyself-hypnotism, is evil?