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. At Worthing Hospital, Sussex, the 61-year-old registered hypnotist sedated himself with … Continue reading
Be sure to check out Christina’s blog about her experience here. It’s been dismissed as a bag of tricks. Nothing more than mere entertainment, but many people seek it as a cure for a lot of different things: Chronic pain, … Continue reading
The shiny pocket watch swings back and forth. “You’re getting sleepy,” the hypnotist whispers. “Sleeeeeepy.” Forget all that. Real therapy-based hypnosis is nothing like the TV version. In fact, chances are, almost all of us have been very close to … Continue reading
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Brain scans of hypnotized people that are taken as they forget and are triggered to remember have revealed neural circuitry that is key to the memory suppression and recall process. The researchers who conducted the … Continue reading
STANFORD, Calif. — It was no way for an 11-year-old to live. For a month the boy had endured daily episodes of uncontrollable jerking and foaming at the mouth, and his physicians at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford were … Continue reading
