Hypnotherapy Training & Practitioner Magazine

Defining hypnosis has always been difficult: we can see the effects, such as behavioural changes or reduced pain, but exactly how they come about is less clear. In fact, one study suggested that: ‘Hypnosis has always been an enigma, and it can be said that the more it is subjected to the light of modern empirical scrutiny, the more it eludes definition.’ [1]