For well over a century, hypnotic suggestion has been used to successfully treat a wide range of clinical conditions, including chronic and acute pain, irritable bowel syndrome, post-traumatic stress ...

Hypnosis is a tool with many useful dermatologic applications. It involves guiding the patient into a trance state for a specific purpose such as relaxation, pain or pruritus reduction, or habit ...

Psychologist Steven Jay Lynn, in a recent paper, debunks myths about hypnosis such as hypnotic obedience, hypnosis as a special state, the fixed nature of hypnotizability, the skill required to ...