Writing for The Conversation, David Acunzo, an assistant professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, examines when and why hypnosis may be used ...

When you think about hypnosis, what do you visualize? For many, it’s a clock-swinging magician or a comedy act that forces an unwitting volunteer to make embarrassing public admissions on stage. But ...

For the first time, neuroscientists at Stanford University have discovered how to make people more susceptible to hypnosis. The technique promises to make hypnotherapy more accessible, allowing more ...

This 200-year-old treatment can be effective for a variety of conditions, but it does take work. By Hannah Seo In the 1770s, a German physician named Franz Mesmer made a splash when he said he could ...

Hypnotherapist Lisa Machenberg uses the method on her three children. — -- Hypnosis is a clinical technique typically used to treat conditions like anxiety and pain but some say it could also ...

Students at college face several challenges including keeping up with their classwork, studying efficiently, planning their future careers, maintaining a good balance between achievement of academic ...

Clinical hypnosis has shown to be effective in the treatment of pain, anxiety, stress, cancer treatment side effects, phobias and habit control problems, such as smoking and weight control, according ...