When Emily, a 28-year-old music teacher from Orlando, Florida, decided to try medical hypnosis, she had plenty of doubts — but she also had nothing to lose. Shortly after giving birth to her first son ...

On the mornings she undergoes chemotherapy, Jeanne Safer hypnotizes herself en route in the taxi. She starts by closing her eyes, then rolling them up to the top of her head and down, all the while ...

Hypnosis is emerging as a powerful medical treatment for pain, anxiety, PTSD and a range of other conditions. Can it shake off its reputation as a stage magician's trick? When David Spiegel was told ...

Based on my experiences as a pediatrician who has used clinical hypnosis for much of my career, I believe therapy with hypnosis should be an essential tool in the kit of every medical health care ...

Based on my experiences as a pediatrician who has used clinical hypnosis for much of my career, I believe therapy with hypnosis should be an essential tool in the kit of every medical health care ...

Thanks to films and cartoons, you probably have a lot of vague ideas about what hypnosis involves. What do you picture? Maybe a fob watch swinging back-and-forth, a therapist saying "you are getting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

New research presented at Euroanaesthesia (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care [ESAIC) shows that the use of virtual reality glasses or medical hypnosis ...

In 19th-century France, hypnosis moved from medical experiment to public spectacle, reshaping debates over mind, body, and control.

Professor of Medicine David Spiegel was recently named as the 2014 recipient of the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in recognition of his research on stress and health. The Daily sat down with ...

When you think of hypnotherapy you might imagine a swinging pendulum and a spooky trance. But hypnotherapy has been gaining popularity for problems like smoking cessation, anxiety and weight loss.Now ...