Women undergoing surgery for breast cancer who received a brief hypnosis session before entering the operating room required less anesthesia and pain medication during surgery, and reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, and discomfort after surgery than women who did not receive hypnosis. The overall cost of surgery was also significantly less for women undergoing hypnosis. Read More…

Bain’s body has never been found, but in a 1998 trial Baltovich was convicted, largely on the strength of hypnosis-aided witnesses and a judge’s charge that was found to be unfair on appeal. Read More…

 Alex Lenkei is not the first patient to reject an anaesthetic in favour of hypnosis before undergoing surgery – but he may be the first to have hypnotised himself.