Hypnosis is a practice that many men look at as being shrouded in secrecy, almost like a mystical art or magic trick reserved ...

For this edition of Flashback Friday, we have John A. Keel’s 1981 article: “Hypnotism: Learn Animal Magnetism at Home in Your Spare Time and Enslave the World.” As you read this literary masterpiece ...

You’re getting sleepy. Now go do your homework! A professional hypnotist claims she can use her powers of persuasion to make even the worst-behaved kids act like angels. “Hypnosis and parenting is a ...

Hypnosis isn’t magic, even if it's sometimes presented that way — it can’t cure alcoholism on its own, but hypnotherapy can make a useful addition to a treatment plan for alcohol use disorders or ...

There's the tip above the water's surface, and it looks powerful and impressive. That's the conscious. But there's a much larger, more powerful structure underneath the water that supports the tip we ...

The prospect of being hypnotized scared me. All I knew about it was from what I saw on TV. But the possibility of losing weight by somebody whispering into my ear drowned those worries away. So I ...

Hypnosis has been a subject of interest for well over a century and has been used since the beginning of civilization. In the past, it was just a trance or a dream state, a ritual dance, or perhaps ...

Group of eight people under the influence of a rotary mirror apparatus (after Luys), from ‘Hypnotism and the New Witchcraft’ by E.A. Hart (1893) (all images ...