The school district began investigating Dr. George Kenney, the former principal at North Port High School in Sarasota, after he admitted that he had hypnotized Wesley McKinley, 16, a day before he killed himself in April.
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Fox 13 says no one is linking the hypnosis with the deaths of the students, but The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that the school district put Kenney on leave in May pending an investigation into whether he broke the law when he hypnotized students.
HypnotizedHey Baby, I've been thinking bout youThought maybe, you been thinking bout me tooWhen we hit the dance floor last night, oh youYou had me locked in your spellEverything was alright untilThe way you move your body, you eyes lips and thighs,Oh babe you got me hypnotizedYou got me hypnotized, oh youYou got me hypnotizedYou got me hypnotized, oh youYou got me hypnotizedHey baby, I've been dreaming bout youThought maybe, you been dreaming bout me tooThe way you move it thrills meYou drive me crazy, you drive me crazyAnd when I hold you it heals me, yeahNo others phase me, no others phase meThe magic in your smileSexy A to Z Oh baby what you do to meYou got me hypnotized, oh youYou got me hypnotizedYou got me hypnotized, oh youYou got me hypnotizedThe room is spinningYou're all I'm seeingFeels like I'm trippingOh babe, I'm trippingThe room is spinningYou're all I'm seeingOh babe, I'm trippingCause baby you got me, You got me, You got me The room is spinningYou're all I'm seeingFeels like I'm trippingOh babe, I'm trippingThe room is spinningYou're all I'm seeingOh babe, I'm trippingCause baby you got me, You got me, You got me
Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Colin Mochrie is doing improv with a new set of collaborators, a group of hypnotized audience members, during the Canadian tour of HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis, alongside master hypnotist Asad Mecci.
I've never tried it, but I've always assumed it would be difficult for me to be hypnotized. I'm somewhat of an anxious person, and it's nearly impossible to for me to shut down my mind - so much so that I got a C minus (a C minus!) in the "techniques of relaxation" class I took in college. (It was the only C I ever got as an undergrad. I'm still bitter!) What I recently learned from a Stanford psychiatrist who treats patients with hypnosis, though, is that hypnotizability is not linked with any specific personality trait; it is, as David Spiegel, MD, told me, "less about personality variables and more about cognitive style."
(Two other interesting nuggets supplied by Spiegel: About tw0-thirds of adults are very capable of being hypnotized, and a person's hypnotizability is unlikely to change in adulthood. He calls it an "amazingly stable trait.")
Now, Spiegel and those in his field are on the verge of identifying a brain signature of being hypnotized. In an imaging study (subscription required) published in the current issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, he and colleagues show how the areas of the brain associated with executive control and attention tend to have less activity in people who cannot be put into a hypnotic trance. I explain more in a release: 2ff7e9595c
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