You've never been hypnotized, right? Never gone onstage and been put into a trance by a magician who told you to do some silly thing - and you did it? Wrong. If you've ever spaced out at the wheel and ...

A former nurse who placed women in a trance so he could grope them has been caught illegally accessing a hypnotic website. Iain Balsillie used the trigger words 'drop for me' in an attempt to make ...

Skeptics view hypnosis as a little-understood parlor trick, but a new study reveals real changes occur in the brain when a person enters an hypnotic state. Some parts of the brain relax during the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Hypnosis has taken on a new focus. More and more parents are now putting their kids under a hypnotic trance, but some say the practice may be going too far. Eric Ferrer-Alfaro, ...

Is there a difference between being in “trance” and being in a “hypnotic state”? I find these two terms quite confusing because of what I have experienced involving these two states of consciousness.

Hypnosis is a tool with many useful dermatologic applications. It involves guiding the patient into a trance state for a specific purpose such as relaxation, pain or pruritus reduction, or habit ...