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A skilled technician of hypnosis can hypnotise just about anyone and using the right approach can have people doing things they would not otherwise do faster than you can say, say what?
That is just not true. At least in the mainstream hypnosis that is used for recovering memory of abduction, or for entertainment purposes, or past life regression.
That is quite a different ballgame where the systematic destruction of the human psyche, under controlled circumstances, in order to break a person down and re-program them so to speak, to behave, think, and process information in a new way, as in a new person, or personality.
We are talking apples and oranges here. One is controlled by an individual, one is not under a person's control, one is subjective, one is directive.
Hypnotising children for instance under conditions you describe, would require less effort than it would for an adult off the street. Even at that, there has to be compliance with the individual, (which is a process in itself) they have to be broken down, and rebuilt like a machine. As you know, there are many ways to break a spirit, which is essentially what it is.
Contrary to popular opinion, only the brightest of people can be good subjects for hypnotism. They have to believe and allow themselves to behave in ways they otherwise wouldn't be, knowing what those suggestions are, and be in control at all times to simply stop it.
The darker application of this process I do believe is as you stated it. It is the extreme end of a process which has been taken advantages of, for purposes not generally accepted as real, but that are very real. Further, I believe that it has been a refined process, and would be surprised if it isn't part of a secret arsenal of applied psychiatry that has developed over the years.
Tim