Yesterday, I told you about researchers who visualized the effects of stress on the human brain. Let's focus today on the activities of our brain during and after hypnosis, with the help of the New ...

Despite what Halloween lore might have you believe, hypnosis isn't all about swinging watches, magic spells and mind control. It is the oldest Western conception of psychotherapy and, in mainstream ...

Psychiatrists have been using hypnosis on patients for decades — to help them reduce their pain or kick a smoking habit, among other reasons. To tackle that question, David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at ...

Three studies at the University of Zurich demonstrate that hypnosis alters activity in the large-scale functional networks of the brain. It also affects the neurochemical milieu of specific brain ...

An electrical zap to the brain can temporarily render a person more susceptible to hypnosis, a new study shows. Participants became more easily hypnotized after paddles placed against their scalp ...

Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. When Dr. David Spiegel emerged from a three-hour shoulder surgery in 1972, he didn’t use any pain meds to recover. Instead, ...

“HONESTLY, I wondered whether I was actually in labour, because surely it was meant to be more painful than this.” That’s Shona, describing the recent birth of her daughter. Her secret? Hypnosis.

A team of researchers from the StanfordUniversity School of Medicine has identified key areas of the humanbrain that, under stimulation, could make a person more susceptible to hypnosis. Clinical ...

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 ...

Hypnosis is a genuine psychological therapy process. A trained hypnotist or hypnotherapist induces a state of intense concentration or focus to help you open up to therapeutic improvement. It’s often ...