mentalist

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He then bills himself as a mentalist and begins performing séances for wealthy clients.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

“When I’m tuned in, it’s all about deep intuition and reading emotions and picking up feelings,” said the renowned mentalist known by his stage name, the Amazing Kreskin.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2023

He is not a conceptualist, like Derek DelGaudio, or a storyteller, in the manner of Helder Guimarães, or a mentalist, like Derren Brown, or an endurance artist, in the style of his producer, David Blaine.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Created and performed by theater artist and mentalist Vinny DePonto, ‘Mindplay’ probes the unreliable narrators of our minds in a Geffen Playhouse world premiere.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Any court mentalist who waded through that pair of unwashed minds would find no evidence of any open deal with Steve Hammond.

From Stop Look and Dig by Smith, George Oliver