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 ...

Let’s test your knowledge of hypnosis. Answer the following true/false questions: Hypnotized participants display blind obedience to the clinician, such that participants respond to suggestions ...

Since all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, if a patient is uninterested it does not work. Two years after I first started using hypnosis in my clinical practice, I reviewed the case histories of all the ...