Many people who have tried both mindfulness and hypnosis comment on the similarities between them. And it’s true: the experience of meditation, particularly when it […]
Can you hypnotise someone into becoming a killer?
In episode one[i] of his controversial series The Experiments, popular TV ‘mentalist’ Derren Brown explored whether it is possible to hypnotise someone into becoming a […]
A Healthy Dose of Narcissism?
Narcissism, it’s fair to say, doesn’t get a great press. One only has to look at the amount of ridicule levelled at such public figures […]
The Marshmallow Test: how do you control your impulses?
In the 1960s, Stanford University psychologist Walter Mischel conducted an experiment that came to be known as ‘The Marshmallow Test’. Pre-school children were offered a […]
