Archive for April 8th, 2007
Hypnosis
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Hypnosis has had a checkered history. Ever since the Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer took Paris by storm with his demonstrations of “magnetic influence” in the 1780s, its reputation has suffered at the hands of entertainers and fraudsters. Yet the evidence strongly suggests that hypnosis is a genuinely altered state of consciousness, with real clinical […]
