Last week the Texas Senate advanced a bill that would prevent the use of witness statements made while under hypnosis in criminal cases. Senate Bill 338, authored by Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a ...

The closest I came to serving on a jury was 20 years ago. When I was summoned for jury duty, my initial reaction was that it would be incredibly difficult, as it would require me to take time off from ...

For many people, hypnosis is best known as a party trick or a bit of entertainment: A hypnotist on stage asks for a volunteer who undergoes hypnosis, then, at a snap of the hypnotist’s fingers, the ...

This 200-year-old treatment can be effective for a variety of conditions, but it does take work. By Hannah Seo In the 1770s, a German physician named Franz Mesmer made a splash when he said he could ...

Writing for The Conversation, David Acunzo, an assistant professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, examines when and why hypnosis may be used ...