Twelve mental health bodies have written an open letter urging ministers they ‘cannot go on’ with so many patients ‘locked out’ of vital services. Leading charities have urged the UK government to urgently address the ‘crisis’ facing mental health services in the forthcoming Budget. (source: The Independent) Hypnotherapy is a fast, safe and drug-free aid Read more…
HANDS up who likes going to the dentist? Actually there are some people who do but the majority of people find it challenging, with about 20 per cent of adults suffering from a full-on dental phobia. Dental phobias stem from a variety of sources like bad experiences in the past, Read more…
By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis. Your eyelids are getting heavy, your arms are going limp and you feel like you’re floating through space. The power of hypnosis to alter Read more…
Hypnotherapy has struggled for scientific acceptance ever since Franz Mesmer claimed in the 18th century that he could cure all manner of ills with what he termed “animal magnetism”. “The whole field is plagued by people who don’t feel research is necessary,” says Peter Whorwell of the University of Manchester Read more…
Those brilliant doctors and researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the answer – New research from Stanford reveals the neural changes associated with hypnosis, and how these changes affect people in the state of hypnosis. Dr David Spiegel, associate chair of psychiatry at the Stanford University School Read more…