Did You Know...?

In 1946, hypnotist Peter Casson was invited to the BBC's Alexandra Palace Studios to take part in an experiment into hypnosis. He was invited to hypnotise 12 volunteers on camera, and succeeded in putting 6 into trace.

However, only 5 of these were the volunteers. The sixth was a technician in the station's control room who was watching the recording on one of the monitors. It was this that led to the revelation that hypnosis could be induced "over the airwaves", and in turn, led to the worldwide ban on hypnosis inductions being filmed and broadcast via TV networks.

These days, with the introduction of technologies such as Skype, we can take advantage of this phenomenon to perform hypnotherapeutic inductions in clients who cannot get to the therapist's place of work, either because of the issues they face, or simply due to geography. I regularly induce trance in a client of mine who lives over 100 miles from me.