Derren, I always wonder if I am responsive to hypnosis? I have been to your shows and think I am always aware of what may happen to me if I am put under so cannot drift off ?? :0). I’m such a huge fan of your work. Lovely man too, so so friendly ! – And, by the way, I was part of The Gameshow and can confirm that I was not a stooge. (I love and still have my mask and nearly scared the sh*t out of my husband after my long journey home after the show) :0) x

I also forgot to say that you do come across as a really nice chap who is a brave enough to be very open about many aspects of your personality which is a quality I have always admired and try to practice myself.

Obviously I know this is just one of millions of comments you receive and is probably as significant as a rain drop in a storm, but I thought I would just make the effort to explain my previous comment a bit more.

With regards to psychologically screening you can only ever reduce the odds of something going wrong and never be certain that it will not.

From a legal point of view you are professionally protected by implementing these measures but which ever way you shake it you are still playing dice.

Academically speaking constructs can be created and explored with a morally acceptable infrastructure which is risk assessed by professionals in the required fields, but when that risk assessment relates to the workings of the mind then risk always remains because no professional fully understands the workings of every mind.

Psychologists play dice too.

After seeing the Assassin episode, I’ve decided that Amnesia must have been induced in the entire audience, then they told him all their personal details and then *snap* back in the room lol. Aww…wish there was an answer!

Will he one day reveal?? I kinda don’t want to know, but I do!

By the way, watching the guy in the assassin episode take his shoes off was one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages!

I assume you’re talking about point #2? He says the contributors are screened, not everyone watching. Contributors are people who contribute, not mere bystanders – ie: Stephen Fry, the gun instructor, etc. Not the audience. In fact, as Derren said in the show (and must be true, according to point #3) no-one else in the audience knew what was about to happen.

Therefore, someone could very well have had a heart attack or traumatic flashback, since they DIDN’T have prior knowledge as to that a shooting was about to take place, making David’s point very valid. I think it was you that didn’t read the post/see the show.

But I’d like to think there were some measures (if not actual prior screening itself) to ensure any bad reactions would be dealt with in kind, helpful hands.

Certain famous magicians and mentalists in the US have said, unprofessionally, a lot of those things about Derren to my friends in certain skeptic communities. They claim that he let’s people believe that it isn’t a trick, ie. the lottery event and spirit cabinet tricks and so he is unprofessional and harmful to rational skepticism. The ridiculous thing is that i have seen those same people doing exactly what they are complaining about. It’s entertainment… Finally i say, ‘look you’ve never complained that your favourite movie didn’t have a disclaimer that the events and spaceships aren’t real… and you are watching a mentalist show, the performer says, not to just believe in stuff/ be skeptical.