Does the word hypnosis sound scary? Mysterious? Strange? When someone I'm talking to finds out that I work as a Clinical Hypnotherapist, here are a few questions they ask: “Is hypnosis magic?” “Does ...

For many people, hypnosis is best known as a party trick or a bit of entertainment: A hypnotist on stage asks for a volunteer who undergoes hypnosis, then, at a snap of the hypnotist’s fingers, the ...

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 ...

Like a lot of people, until very recently, most of my knowledge of hypnosis came from pop culture and involved a creepy older man swinging a pocket watch in front of a woman’s face in an attempt to ...

Rachel Silverman* (22 at the time) hunched over in agony and curled up in a ball on her soft, well-worn couch. While many women her age were out socializing with friends and partners after work, her ...

In the latest segment of this series, senior writer Molly Snyder visits a hypnotist and finds out more about the process. Quackery or viable life improver? My First Time is a series of articles ...