An NHS trust is offering free lessons on self-hypnosis to all mums-to-be as experts say it reduces anxiety about childbirth. They carried out a three-year test at the Blackburn and Burnley ...

A British woman has undergone major surgery on her foot without an anaesthetic by hypnotising herself into feeling no pain. Bernadine Coady imagined she was beneath a waterfall ...

However, anyone using hypnosis in a clinical or therapeutic context needs to have conventional training in a relevant discipline, such as clinical psychology, medicine, or dentistry to ensure that ...

For Lindsey C. McKernan, a clinical psychologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who uses hypnosis in her practice, training in the practice came with her training as a clinical psychologist.