Doubters have argued that when a person is ‘hypnotised’, they are actually fully conscious, but are seeing certain mental imagery because the hypnotist has tricked their mind. However, researchers ...

Interest in hypnosis soared during the pandemic, largely thanks to social media and video conferencing. Is it a fad, or does going into a trance-like state help relieve stress and anxiety? During the ...

If you are a psychiatrist or a psychotherapist, you are asked, much more frequently than one would imagine in the last decade or so, whether you could hypnotise your client in order to arrive at the ...

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 ...