ABSTRACT
The controversy which occupied our attention in the last chapter rages between experimental psychologists – those who work in university departments, away from the realities of trying to cure physical and psychological ailments. It is not too surprising, then, to find that the debate has had hardly any effect on working hypnotherapists. Whether or not there is such a thing as hypnosis, or the hypnotic trance, they have a tool which works over a wide range of disorders, so they just get on with it.
