Can hypnosis be used to make someone do something against his or her own will? This question has been the source of great controversy. I served as a consultant about hypnosis to Woody Allen’s film, ...

Contrary to what is portrayed commonly in the entertainment industry, hypnosis is not a tool for kidnapping or mind control. It is not practiced by snakes or evil-doers. It is not facilitated by ...

Declassified records reveal coordinated psychiatric participation in behavioral control experiments — raising urgent oversight questions as psychotropic drugs are prescribed to more than 70 million ...

Hypnosis can make some people forget and, when given a special cue, quickly remember recently viewed scenes. A new study using the technique may shed light on the process of memory retrieval and the ...

Everywhere you turn, there is an entertaining and mysterious conspiracy theory to be found. But there is one story you might easily dismiss as conspiracy... until you find out that it is 100% true: ...

It was an innocent time, the mid-1950s. America wasn’t yet cynical about its geopolitical games in the Cold War. Case in point: In order to maintain its spying edge over the Russkies, the CIA ...