As infants, our emotional expression is our primary mode of communication: Crying when we are distressed or laughing and smiling when we are happy. We tend to become upset (e.g., angry, sad, or ...

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 ...

Can hypnosis be used to make someone do something against his or her own will? This question has been the source of great controversy. I served as a consultant about hypnosis to Woody Allen’s film, ...

Mention hypnosis and many people instantly think of the hypnotist who calls a person up to the stage of an event and then hypnotizes them. Well, what if I told you that you probably have the wrong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hypnotherapist Karl Smith rates 10 hypnosis scenes in movies and television for realism. Smith discusses how hypnotism works and ...