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THE GAME OF HYPNOSIS

Are you playing ‘The Game of Hypnosis’ – or are you being played?

MiscellaneousKev Sheldrake8 January 2024trance, Danny Boyle film Trance, The Jungle Book, Scooby Doo, The Manchurian Candidate, Dean Koontz novel False Memory, V K Kumar, Stephen R Lankton, academia, science, suggestion, hypnokink, hypno-kink, role-play, sleep, hypnotic sleep

MAGIC SEEKING

Kev explains why hypnosis isn’t really magic

BooksAmy & Kev25 December 2023hypnosis, trance, state, statist, academia, psychology, magic, magician, science

DERREN BROWN IS A MAGICIAN

Kev on why Derren Brown can’t tell you his secrets!

Miscellaneous, NewsKev Sheldrake24 December 2023hypnosis, trance, state, statist, academia, psychology, magic, magician, science

LET THE MUSIC PLAY

Amy The Teenaged Witch Explains It All!

Books, Miscellaneous, NewsAmy Ellingham22 December 2023hypnosis, trance, state, statist, academia, psychology, magic, magician, science

IF LIFE IS A STAGE, THEN HYPNOSIS IS A ROLE

Hypnosis: A Social Psychological Analysis of Influence Communication – Theodore R Sarbin and William C Coe

JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 3)

The third part of an epic interview with renowned academic researcher, John F Kihlstrom.

JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 1)

The first part of an epic interview with renowned academic researcher, John F Kihlstrom.

PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONTROL

Kev writes about ‘phenomenological control’ – the concept of changing one’s experienced reality

ResourcesKev Sheldrake11 January 2023hypnosis, science, academia, Zoltan Dienes, Éva Bányai, phenomenological control, Peter Lush

HISTORY BUFFS

Hypnosis: A Brief History – Judith Pintar and Steven Jay Lynn

WE WILL BEGIN THE HYPNOSIS PROCEDURE NOW

Hypnotic Induction: Perspectives, Strategies and Concerns – V K Kumar and Stephen R Lankton (editors)

LIES AND TRUTH

Myths and misconceptions about hypnosis and suggestion: Separating fact and fiction – Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Devin B Terhune, and Joseph P Green

PapersKev Sheldrake5 January 2022academia, hypnosis, suggestion, Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Devin B Terhune, Joseph P Green, hypnotherapy, inductions, state

HYPNOSIS BY NUMBERS

Discovering Statistics Using R – Andy Field, Jeremy Miles and Zoë Field

BooksKev Sheldrake6 October 2021Andy Field, Jeremy Miles, Zoë Field, statistics, psychology, maths, hypnosis, academia, University of Sussex, Gorassini, Spanos

A HIGHLY CREDIBLE BOOK?

The Highly Hypnotizable Person – Michael Heap, Richard J Brown and David A Oakley

AN ABSOLUTE BOMBSHELL

Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation – Irving Kirsch, Antonio Capafons, Etzel Cardeña-Buelna and Salvador Amigó

BooksKev Sheldrake16 June 2021Irving Kirsch, Antonio Capafons, Etzel Cardeña-Buelna, Salvador Amigó, Milton Erickson, Dave Elman, G H Estabrooks, NLP, Theodore R Sarbin, Barber, Lynn, Spanos, Gorassini, Graham Wagstaff, Chaves, hypnosis, academia

GETTING SERIOUS

The Student Psychologist’s Handbook – Theodore R Sarbin and William C Coe

BooksKev Sheldrake19 May 2021Irving Kirsch, Zoltan Dienes, Theodore R Sarbin, William C Coe, psychology, statistics, academia, science

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