Group of eight people under the influence of a rotary mirror apparatus (after Luys), from ‘Hypnotism and the New Witchcraft’ by E.A. Hart (1893) (all images ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. If we understand what hypnotism is, ...

At St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago, Dr. Alfred P. Solomon, neurologist, last week, hypnotized a young woman. During the hour she lay so, Dr. Harold G. Jones of Chicago opened her abdomen and removed ...

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There's no magic, no swinging pendulums or swaying watches, and no one is counting backwards as they slump into unconsciousness. This is medical rather than stage or movie hypnotism, and it is ...

Today is World Hypnotism Day – but does this increasingly popular therapeutic technique really work? ALICE WYLLIE challenged a hypnotherapist to banish her arachnophobia, and met a woman who stopped ...

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. If hypnotism is done in a legal way which does not ...

I’m sitting in a hypnotist’s office because I am a fat load. There’s no other way to put it. I’ve been “stocky” or “husky” since elementary school. But my most recent weight gain — brought on by a ...

Debbie Bundock, 37, spent four years trying for a baby. In desperation, she and her husband, Mark, 41, both teachers from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, decided they would try IVF, a procedure they had ...