Here are links to newspaper and journal hypnosis articles that either present ridiculousness as fact, or that debunk silliness that would otherwise parade as hypnotic truth.

I plan to add to this page from time to time so I would appreciate your suggestions for similar articles.

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Just Goes To Show That A Medical Degree is No Protection Against Believing Nonsense:

Toronto woman says she is Marilyn Monroe

Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?

Skeptical Inquirer - People who believe they've been abducted by aliens -- often after hypnosis sessions -- are not crazy, just imaginative and mistaken.

More on what's behind tales of alien abductions and the role of hypnosis.

Fantasy proneness Skeptical Inquirer A critique of psychiatrist John Mack"s ardent acceptance of the reality of alien abductions.

Remember This

Remembering Dangerously Skeptical Inquirer - USA.

Elizabeth Loftus, the leading advocate against the reality of repressed memories, describes the similarity between today's hunting of molesters based on de-repressed memories to the witch hunts of centuries ago.

This is the only time I've read an admission by her that sometimes the de-repressed memories could be real. My position is that for sure hypnotists and other therapists can create false memories (actually they are beliefs, not memories) but that doesn't mean all flashbacks and delayed recalled memories of childhood sexual abuse are fabricated.

You Believe What You Believe

Hypnosis, Airplanes, and Strongly Held Beliefs Skeptical Inquirer - USA

An important article that explains the unwitting collusion of hypnotherapists and their clients -- and the overriding effects of belief systems.

Subconscious Layers of the Mind?

Here's a great explanation of past-life phenomena from an expert PLR and imagination