Mental Manipulation

The psychic power to modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions of others. Also known as Psychological Manipulation or Cerebral Control.

Ability
Enables the user to render others unconscious, suppress their memories, and slightly negate the use of abilities. Can increase/decrease mental capacity, modify minds to be agreeable, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow mental disorders or break down mental barriers.

The subjects are still aware of their conscious.

Methods

 * Some touch the head to manipulation.
 * Most modify from a distance.

Limits
The user can only control the functions of the brain, they cannot read minds or control people.

Techniques
Some can perform:
 * Distraction
 * To nullify the attention span


 * Faculty Diminution
 * To suppress skills


 * Lie Inducing
 * To nullify the utterance of truth


 * Misdirection
 * To disorient others direction


 * Palindromic Action Inducing
 * To make others act backwards


 * Stupefaction
 * To render others into a stupor


 * Motor Continuity
 * To shut down motor function control so that a subject keeps moving


 * Psychic Bestowal
 * To magnify a subject’s knowledge capacity (works on animals).


 * Bio-acoustic Disruption
 * To cause a subject's brain falter on vocal communication, causing incoherent speech.


 * Logorrhea
 * To force others to keep speaking.


 * Psychic Sealing
 * To seal secrets with others.

Movies/TV
Iktochi.
 * The Haitian from Heroes can perform this.
 * Most Jedi and Sith in the Star Wars trilogies can perform this, as can some alien species, i.e.

Anime/Manga

 * Hatori Sohma from Fruits Basket can perform this; he can erase people's memories.

Books

 * Daine from the Wild Magic series can make animals smarter.
 * Angel (Maximum Ride)