History of Hypnosis

In 1965, an inquiry into Scientology ended up shutting down Melbourne’s hypnotherapists. For two decades, whether you could legally see one depended on which side of the Murray River you lived on.

In 1908, the Japanese government did something no Western country had quite dared to do. It made practising hypnosis “without reason” a police offence. Under Article 2.19 of the new Police Criminal Punishment…