by Sarah Leah Many people want to learn hypnosis. In fact, I would say that that is an abuse of the possibilities of hypnosis. Surgeons perform even open-heart surgery on patients where using medication to anesthetize them would be dangerous. So it clearly is a very effective method of influencing people. For hundreds of years, hypnosis has been used in many societies from a range of therapeutic treatment to day-to-day occurrences of human life, even some with sinister yet unfounded stories