Anaesthesiologists have found that using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) in surgery where LA is feasible but, not on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort, can aid healing ...

An NHS hospital has been found guilty of making bogus claims about the benefits of hypnosis for serious medical conditions. The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine has been told to withdraw ...

Hypnosis may well conjure images of black-clad, eyeliner-embossed performers convincing seemingly innocent people to perform cringe-worthy acts. But there's more to hypnosis — or more specifically, ...

When the living and breathing body of a 71-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient was recently lying in a sterile operating theater at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, his head was in Thailand.

Janet Golden Balzer is about to hypnotize you. She doesn’t have a pendulum, swinging pocket-watch or a black and white spiral. And she promises she’s not going to make you quack like a duck.

HYPNOSIS can be used to help anxious children cope with needles, surgery and other hospital procedures, Australia’s peak anaesthetic body says. Simple suggestion and mind control techniques are ...

Patients who are put in a trance just before the operation spend less time in hospital and also have fewer side effects if they need chemotherapy. They are hypnotised by an anaesthetist who talks ...

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 ...