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 ...

OPENING THE WAY: “What we've done is given you a chance to re-use a pathway in the brain that was good, and it starts to open other healthy pathways,” says Michelle Payton of hypnosis' power for ...

“You’re under my power. When I snap my fingers you’ll flap your arms and cluck like a chicken.” Is this your fear when you think about going to a hypnotherapist? That you’ll be under their power and ...

Eyes closed, on a reclining chair in a darkened room, I listen as Aaron Surtees tells me, in a slow, soothing voice, how not to bottle up my feelings. I’d passed my wife Ann on the way into the ...

Hypnosis played a critical role in the real-life case depicted in Max’s Love & Death. But was it good science? Here’s what the experts say. So (spoiler alert) how in the world did the jury find her ...

Sofia Vergara loves her sweets as much as she does looking fabulous – but most of the time those two don’t go hand-in-hand. The Colombian bombshell revealed in the November issue of Shape magazine, ...

Nancy Jordan sat down in my office and lit a cigarette--a deadly habit, given her severe asthma and tobacco allergies. Jonathan Hunter, M.D.--my supervisor, her psychotherapist--was also in the room.

Nancy Jordan sat down in my office and lit a cigarette--a deadly habit, given her severe asthma and tobacco allergies. Jonathan Hunter, M.D.--my supervisor, her psychotherapist--was also in the room.