"Back when I watched horror movies, I saw psychiatrists make patients lie on a couch and talk to them, then hypnotize them into doing all sorts of terrible things, even murder. Is that real?"
Spider-Man looked at Bruce and asked, remembering that when the film had reached that scene, Bruce had said that the personality trait called Manipulation was best at hypnosis.
"Yes and no." Bruce gave a neutral answer, then explained, "Hypnosis cannot directly control people and make them do things. Most of the time, it is a form of in-depth psychotherapy, more often used to get patients to reveal the secrets in their hearts and ease their psychological pressure."
"When people are awake, there are many things they find difficult to talk about. It is not that they deliberately want to conceal what they have done, but their descriptions are often inaccurate and biased."
Bruce had put it tactfully. Overlord Superman said bluntly, "Everyone in this world embellishes their own actions. Some can portray premeditated murder as unintentional harm, while others call drug use a treatment for illness. But where do all these coincidences and unavoidable circumstances come from?"
"Not entirely." Bruce refuted him again. "When something happens, people may feel pain, remorse, and sorrow. But the human body's self-healing mechanisms are extremely powerful. To avoid pain, their self-awareness gives them painkillers."
"There are two kinds of painkillers. One is to downplay the memory, commonly known as forgetting. The other is to distort it. For instance, if someone kills a person who offered no resistance, then becomes too frightened and pained afterward, his brain may add a memory of the other person lunging at him first."
"For a while, he will know that image is fabricated, an excuse he came up with. But as time passes, his other