Word: faerstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution's choices, Psychiatrist Saul Faerstein, goes a step further; he sees the tapes as proof that the whole hypnosis was a hype. Says he: "Bianchi was almost a caricature of a hypnotized person, with eyes closed and head bobbing-a pseudo trance." The other prosecution choice. Psychiatrist Martin Orne, staged his own "double hallucination" test of Bianchi. After trying to hypnotize the killer, Orne asked him to shake hands with an imaginary figure that he identified as Bianchi's attorney Dean Brett. Then Orne had the real Brett enter the room. Confused, Bianchi asked if Brett could...