Sorry for not reading your posts through carefully the first time.
Hypnosis is another branch of Entertainment, its an art of its own, often taken as magic or mentalism, although its not.
You will understand more and more once you take steps in mentalism that actually that Hypnosis talk is actually part of a character and not directly used in mentalism.
Often yes, mentalism and hypnosis are mixed together but mostly it is a Hypnotist doing mentalism effects as a side dish, not a Mentalist doing hypnotism as a side dish.
This has something to do with the principles in mixing Magic and mentalism, if you mix Hypnosis and mentalism you get a strange mix of people thinking that by doing a billet routine you are actually hypnotizing everyone then switching out and manipulating with the billets moving to the same spot and going on with the show.
Yes, one can use Hypnosis to further make his Psychological character be stronger but the techniques involved usually stay within principles that do not need direct hypnosis at all. Its rather playing with the subconscious mind. Usually a hypnosis act would use a number of people who are put under and then demonstrated the powers of the mind. Hypnotizing someone is not exactly a 2 minute job, its rather a 10-15 minute process(speed induction, a concrete hypnotizing would take many sessions and hours of work).
Anyone who does hypnotizing please speak, since some of this might be bullcrap since i have not been in the art long enough!
Sorry for the missayings, if any.
Mikk.