She readily agreed, After hypnotizing her, I told her that I would count backwards from ten to one, and that at the count of one she would have been turned into a chicken.
Several years earlier, when I was discussing the topic of hypnosis in an Introductory psychology class, I asked a student who had showin herself to be an excellent hypnotic subject in my class in hypnosis if she would be willing to help me illustrate how easy it was to turn a hypnotized person into a chicken. And this experience taught me more about the true nature of hypnosis than I have learned from any other single source. 'That's for stage hypniotists.' But I did once. When I opened my psychology practice in New Jersey, one of my first hypnosis clients asked me, 'You aren't going to turn me into a chicken, are you?'
