Can you lie under hypnosis? Can you be convinced to do terrible or embarrassing things under hypnosis? If a wart is removed by hypnosis, will it come back?
The answer to the first question is yes, and to the latter two it is no, according to a psychiatrist who is a hypnosis expert. Thus, while the psychological state of hypnosis has its limitations, it can also produce some dramatic—and surprising—changes in the world of the mind, body, and human behavior.
A book about hypnosis is also for sale through American Psychiatric Publishing titled Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis, second edition, by Herbert Spiegel, M.D., and David Spiegel, M.D. See http://appi.org/SearchCenter/Pages/default.aspx?k=hypnosis.
