Changes in a person's "normal" mental state after taking drugs, while meditating, during hypnosis or due to specific medical conditions have been a topic of study for several years now. Some of these ...

Is hypnosis a trance state that enables individuals to perform extraordinary feats or an instance of motivated role-playing? Or is it something else?

During the Cold War, the CIA launched MKUltra — a program of mind control experiments involving hypnosis, drugs, and bizarre schemes. What they uncovered was stranger than fiction. Republican senator ...