If you get to a drug trial and it's also a Derren Brown show, you know there's going to be some sort of trickery afoot!

One sentence sums up this whole episode - YOU GAVE YOURSELF PERMISSION

Need Derren back on TV more

Darren gets points for helping these people overcome their phobias! What a great human being!

I love so much that she mouths "You bastard" to Derren at the end :P

Instead of manipulating, he’s making lives better 🙏 thanks Derren, thanks for your contribution to the human race.

Love that "You bastard" at the end!

I love that after 20 years of deception and meeting him In person. It’s amazing how derren can still pull wools over our eyes

Nick was amazing! He was so, so brave. He confronted men who as far as he knew, were prepared to bottle each other, but was still prepared to get in the middle and get his friends out safely!!

So awesome that these powerful techniques are being used for good. Love this guy, and his message.

Thank you Derren for helping people deal with their phobias. You are a great human being and so kind. I was almost in tears of happiness as I saw how these various people dealt with their perceived problems.

This is the best episode I’ve liked so far, far better than the ones in which participants steal or commit some crime since it has really helped the participants

Too bad Derren is not on TV anymore. Too bad Derren is not educating people with his amazing talent anymore. :(

I didn't even read the description but I already knew this was a placebo trial. Classic Derren Brown kind of program this. I love this guy and his shows. I loved The Seance and the show about the horse betting.

Wonderful, the way to be happy is by making people happy, this is Derren. Great episode!

Oh our singing star! HOW BEAUTIFUL she scrubs up eh? The flick of her hips surpassed only by the way she kicked her dress up like a boss. I've got goose bumps and I'm crying. Bravo bravo bravo!!! and thank you to all who took part - it was like the Wizard of Oz, everyone got their missing element (which was always there all the time). I do recommend watching DB on Steven Bartlett - Diary of a CEO. What an unpretentious, vulnerable and sweet man he is.... surprisingly shy. Love him to bits, one of my favourite Brits - a real National Treasure.

Derren you have me in tears! So beautiful it can be, the power of the mind!

Love this guy he's a genius and uses his powers for good❤️🇬🇧✌️

This makes me rethink back our class ten boarding school where one of the student who would always complain that he is sick with stomach pain. So, the principal took him to the hospital and they gave him injection with distilled water. Miraculously he too got cured. 😅

@darrenbrown is a genius 👏 I saw thus many years ago. So good Darren!

I could do with Derren to make me overhaul my mind, very uplifting episode.

Do you REALISE how IMPORTANT and PROFOUND this experiment is?!! 😳 Derren points us towards one of the most insidious misunderstandings in human psychology! That people and circumstances can MAKE us feel a certain way! But the TRUTH is... NOTHING outside of us can determine our experience NOW! Not bridges, not people (not the past, not the future, not our body, not OTHER COUNTRIES (war), not our work, not the weather, not spiders etc. etc. etc.) What we're experiencing is coming from INSIDE US! Our feelings are coming from THOUGHT in the moment! Which is GREAT NEWS! Because, as you've seen in this video, WE can OVERRIDE THE FEELING and respond to the present reality based on what we actually want!!!! In a way that makes more sense!! There's a feeling of calmness and a wisdom and creativity that's hovering below our unhelpful thoughts... Thank you so much Derren for your creativity and effort ~ you're part of an army of people around the world trying to quash this misunderstanding once and for all, with a vision of a happier world. (Big pharma won't like it!!) ❤

39:00 shout out to the blonde dude (left front) pumping his fist for figuring out the scramble before the reveal

If only they teach this in schools..

That was really positive. Such a wholesome use for these techniques.

Nick was gorgeous. Lol. I hope he continued on his journey to be more resilient.

I think what’s most interesting about this is that Derren doesn’t seem to have done any hypnosis or anything previously on them and I believe I’m right in saying that it’s entirely their own belief that’s affecting them just as it was affecting them the opposite way before they took the “drug“

The you bastard at the end really makes it, he's such a wonderful person and everyone in this is so brave, it really goes to show how far people can go if they let themselves

extremely empowering!

This Man is just so amazing.😢🙏👌👍🙏🙏

It’s also crazy how different Katie sounded from the audition to the end. They didn’t perform well at the audition at all and seemed like a bad singer but they’re actually really really good!

This was a blast from the past popping up in my feed! thank you so much for that experience! that placebo really did change my life for the better 🙂

All of them are so brave! I feel great after watching this! Thank you guys and gals!

The best tool i have found for pretty much any psychological issue (fear, anxiety, sadness, anything) is HeartMath - i only use 'cut thru' and attitude breathing.... And all the information is available for free... but it may be useful to get one of their books (can get on kindle). I have never seen much results from anything else that I tried over many years - the heartmath stuff is making my life more and more comfortable.

Utterly fabulous! Loved the end, made me cry 💗

Love Darren Brown's series !

Thanks for another brilliantly entertaining video.

The power of the mind, with a little NLP thrown in. Subtle, but effective. Nice work Derren. ;)

Derren is amazing!

The ending is amazing

Extraordinary, the cheek and the genius… 😉👏

Absolutely amazing ❤

This going to be good!

Thank you Derren

The ending was so cool 😎

Incredible!

Bless ❤❤❤❤ absolutely brilliant

Excellent

Derren, "you bastard" :D

Good 🔥

Very very interesting. I'd need some of that placebo stat.

I can't even do that Dan amazing

Wouldn't it be great if this kind of thing was done in reality, with all the people who suffer with phobias anxiety, OCD etc. It could help thousands of people xx

Derren brown is on the medical team. I would be a bit suspicious😂

13:11 "OK, send in the obvious model/actor drinking special brew for no reason"

I really want to learn from Derren. I’ve been able to adapt what I can just from the programs. I wonder who taught him.

Amazing that a clever chap like Darren Brown (along with actors Debbie Moore and William Dafoe, and musicians Sophie Ellis-Baxter and Cain West) has misspelled his name all these years. Perhaps it's part of the set-up for a very long-con trick he's doing.

I need this medicine, however diazepam works just as well.

What's she mouthing at him at the end? "Bastard!" ? 😂

Derren using his placebo to help people with fear, phobias and stopping smoking makes perfect sense. There are psychological elements to all these things, therefore suggestion and placebo can obviously have an impact. However, his suggestion that a placebo cured people of allergies is nonessential. Allergies are real, biochemical disorders - it's irresponsible and factually incorrect to suggest that the power of suggestion is a potential therapy.

It is great that these people were able to overcome fear that had a negative effect on their life. Thr truth DARPA has been working on pharmaceuticals as well as neuro implants that remove fear from soldiers which I am not sure is a good thing because human beings as well as many animals are wired for fear and anxiety to avoid danger....so often fear is a mechanism that keeps us safe so removing fear all together cannot be good

In the year 2022 we need the idea of a pill to get over things and man up. Back in the old days we just had to man up. National Service needs to return in order to help folks get over being human.

Old series! In your Mind

I must’ve missed this when it first came on! When was it broadcast…?

I love Darren but how many “sleeping” people does he have locked in his basement? Haha

i have these blue goggles haha.

So the cure for everything is.....Sugar

Most drugs work because of the placebo effect.

please if you listen

i chewed out that wire.

guess what man i still take that blue pill.

Bear does this

what the hell was that "snap induction"? never seen that before it looks so fake

blue handgun.

47:15 :) :) :)

prove me wrong aftwr grades are affected ?

i want a blue pill that helps me throw better fits in order to get the things i want.

A gorgeous 19 year old hooligan drinking special brew.

I hate injections, catch 22 for me. I'll take the capsule though...

Daft

Don't be fooled like they were. That little "snap and you fall asleep" isn't a real thing.

For Kati, you should have had actors come up and start clapping or smiling and waving other people to come listen. In her case people did walk up to listen but they were stone faced random people on the street. Wit nick he did good as he said because the actor didn’t have an issue with him. I wanted to see a direct conflict with HIM by the actor. He might have failed that first test.

Idk if this is forbidden but someone in here looks like the less violent version of Jeffy D

I don't think the evangelical, charismatic church likes Derren 😂

I do love Derren Brown, BUT... remember, this is a TV show, that follows a tried and tested narrative arc, particularly including the part where it looks like it hasn't worked (in this case the singer), and then turns out to have worked better than you thought - he uses this in almost every trick! What you think is happening (in this case, a placebo curing all kinds of conditions), is NOT what is happening. That is just what the show is superficially about, but this CANNOT be what is actually happening. I've worked in clinical research for over 20 years. To do any sort of research on human subjects, there needs to be informed consent, supported by mandatory ethics approval by an approved review committee. The show works on 2 levels: you are watching people who think they know what's happening, but you the audience know more (level 1), but you the audience are also being manipulated in the same way, and think you know what's happening, but the show's creators know more (level 2). NONE of Derren's stunts like this (whether it be getting people to rob a bank, steal artwork, play death by Russian roulette, or in this case, treat a disease with a placebo), NONE would be allowed by a research ethics committee for the purpose of a TV magician's show, whose approval would be mandatory for ANY research with humans. A TV show involving research on human subjects, would be no different, and wouldn't constitute a pass to the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) on human experimentation. The ethical implications of the premise of a show like this (or any of his other similar ones) would be enormous, myriad, potentially long-term and multiplicative, and notoriously difficult to predict. As such, the premise itself would NEVER be allowed by an ethics committee, let alone the obvious risk of harm in additional scenes like the fight in the pub. An ethics committee would have to weigh the benefits vs the risk, and since this is a TV show, and the only conceivable benefit is increased viewer ratings, this could never outweigh the risks of surreptitiously manipulating vulnerable people like this. So this ISN'T what is happening, even if it appears so, it isn't! There is also no such thing as a 'snap induction' to hypnotise someone to sing at a level they were previously incapable of performing, or any other exceptional ability that Derren has seemingly created 'through the power of suggestion' during his shows. As a neuroscientist, I can tell you, this just isn't how the brain works! And yet... I love Derren's shows, because, even if you watch it with level 2 in mind, you're still left wondering what has happened. Clearly he hasn't done what the show is purporting him to have done (level 1). If we assume everyone isn't just acting, and pretending to be involved when they're fully aware and essentially stooges (that would be asinine, a waste of time and I think beneath Derren who is a great entertainer, and has stated stooges are never used in his shows), then what have we just seen? Clearly it ISN'T working on level 1... so what are they doing on level 2? That, to me, is the most interesting piece. When people discuss the programme at level 1 (as evidenced by the comments section on this video), or even write in to complain how unethical it is to do these things, they too have been successfully manipulated, just like the protagonists in the show, and thus the show works at multiple levels. That's great TV! Well done Derren! He's great live too - go watch his shows.

no, people still need, that blue abilify pill.

I would like to believe this buuuuuut nah, that girl's singing was a bit too perfect, I'm not buying it,

by the way, this is depraved.

joke

...and that is why phobias are BS.

I find it ironic that, for all his abilities to manipulate and read people, his body language is incredibly easy to read..

then once i was hypnotized v ,e v me i will wait sorry

This is the best episode I’ve liked so far, far better than the ones in which participants steal or commit some crime since it has really helped the participants