ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2009) — The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide – laughing gas – may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study’s findings – that people are more suggestible under the gas – mean that dental patients may benefit from being coached to relax while undergoing sedation.
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NCH Press release about “The Fourth Kind” movie
Films are often, deliberately, pretending to portray a truth that is stranger than fiction. But the largest hypnotherapy association in the UK, the National Council for Hypnotherapy, has come out against the recently-released The Fourth Kind as giving an inaccurate, unrealistic and unhelpful portrayal of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
