Results of a new study using hypnosis may shed light on the process of memory retrieval and the potential for one part of the brain to block it.

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 ...

Yet individuals do not lose control over their actions during hypnosis -- contrary to the notion the media reinforces that hypnosis is something done to you and that hypnosis can be used to ...

Scientists are using hypnosis to make healthy people delusional. To find out why, David Robson discovered what it’s like to lose control of his mind ...

Instead of allowing pain, anxiety or other unhelpful states to run the show, hypnosis helps people to exert more control over their thoughts and perceptions. How does hypnosis do this?

Warning: Contains spoilers for Netflix movie hypnotic. Netflix's creepy new thriller features a villainous hypnotherapist who uses the power of suggestion to control and kill his patients.