The Hypnotic Brain: Hypnotherapy and Social Communication

Hypnosis has recently experienced a surge of popularity in the scientific community and the general public and is currently being used to deal with a wide range of disorders. IN this elegantly written book, Dr. Peter Brown draws on the latest developments in cognitive psychology, anthropology, ethnology, and neuroscience to offer a new explanation for how hypnosis works and how it can be applied.

Brown argues that the ability to hypnotized and be hypnotized is closely related to brain func...