During the Cold War, the CIA began funding secret experiments designed to control the human mind. Scientists used hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and powerful hallucinogens to test how thoughts and ...

The notion that some evil eminence might use mass hypnosis over television is older than 1984, but nobody outside fiction has ever proved it possible. Last week a reputable Manhattan psychiatrist who ...

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TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

For three years, Yale Law Professor Steven Duke has been working to correct what he calls “one of the most inexcusable, grotesque perversions of justice in the history of the federal criminal process.

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. When you hear about hypnosis, you probably have some pre-conceived notions about what it ...

What hypnosis is—and isn’t. Hypnosis is an interactional process between two people that often creates fascinating shifts in perception and behavior. Such changes are often highly compelling: Hypnotic ...

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered how to use magnetic pulses to more easily induce hypnosis, a fascinating study published in the journal Nature Mental Health claims. To be clear, the ...

A strange mystic swings a pocket watch back and forth, repeating the phrase "You're getting sleepy, very sleepy," giving them absolute command over their subject. That's not how hypnotism really works ...