Hypnosis is a tool with many useful dermatologic applications. It involves guiding the patient into a trance state for a specific purpose such as relaxation, pain or pruritus reduction ...

Not everyone is susceptible to hypnosis, but Vienna-based hypnotherapist ... to the treatment “in the blink of an eye… I entered a trance state, but actually what was going on in my head ...

A common form of a trance state is when you've been driving along and suddenly you realise you've been paying no attention to the route you've taken. "We call that highway hypnosis," Marshall said.

The earliest record of a hypnotic state goes back to the writings of Avicenna, a Persian physician who wrote about “trance” ...

“You can also be in a trance when you’re in a state of flow, fully absorbed in something, or when you’re in a state of ecstasy,” Mongiovi shares. But back to the initial pre-hypnosis ...