Studies show that hypnosis can treat everything from chronic pain to poor study habits. Chances are, it can work for you. SHARE I positioned my chair at a 90-degree angle to the recliner in which my ...

In India during the 1840s, a Scottish doctor named James Esdaile was frequently visited by men suffering from enormous tumours in the scrotum, caused by mosquito bites. The operation to remove the ...

A lecture on hypnosis attracted 760 Tsinghua University students who packed into a hall of 450 seats. Canadian Glenn Alexander, a certified master practitioner of hypnosis, uses the technique as ...

I AM about to have my left leg paralysed, my arm taken over by an alien force and, quite possibly, be made blind. I confess I’m a bit nervous. But also, strangely, I hope it all works. These insults ...

CLEARWATER – As Wendy Lemke leans back in her office chair, her right thumb and index finger touch. Once she notices the hand movement, Lemke pauses and smiles. "This became conditioned with a ...

“You’re under my power. When I snap my fingers you’ll flap your arms and cluck like a chicken.” Is this your fear when you think about going to a hypnotherapist? That you’ll be under their power and ...

For a long time, hypnosis has been the Rodney Dangerfield of health care. Yes, researchers have long been curious – even as they learn more – about the relationship of mind to body. Still, among ...

Wendy W.* couldn't believe it: Her cycles had always been very regular, but the minute she decided to try to get pregnant, she stopped menstruating. After 4 months without a period, the 24-year-old ...

Hypnosis has gotten a bad rap thanks to movie images with Rasputin-like eyes superimposed over spinning-wheels of kaleidoscope patterns. The stories haven't helped either: the maniacal hypnotist on ...