Paul McKenna started in radio aged 16 at in-store Radio Topshop, and went on to present for stations including Radio Jackie, Radio Caroline, Chiltern Radio, Capital Radio and BBC Radio One. A hypnotist who guested on his show led to a developing interest in the subject, initially for reasons of self-development, although entertainment was later [...]
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Precursors of hypnotherapy have been seen in the sleep temples and mystery religions of ancient Graeco-Roman society, though analogies are often tenuous. Some parallels can be drawn between hypnotism and the trance-inducing rituals common to most pre-literate societies. In the mid-18th century when Franz Anton Mesmer introduced the concepts and techniques of “animal magnetism”, Mesmerism [...]
The extent to which a subject may or may not be “suggestible” has significant ramifications in the scientific research of hypnosis and its associated phenomena. Most hypnotherapists and academics in this field of research work from the premise that hypnotisability (or suggestibility) is a factor in inducing useful hypnosis states. That is, the depth of [...]

Erickson’s friend, and sometime collaborator, Andre Weitzenhoffer, a well-known hypnosis researcher himself, has repeatedly raised concerns over the nature of Erickson’s legacy. The majority of today’s Ericksonians consist of individuals who have never known Erickson, even less been directly trained by him. Today, and for some time now, much of the teaching of the Ericksonian [...]
This concept has grown popular due to Rhonda Byrne’s ”The Secret” (also a 2006 film) and The Law of Attraction series by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks. These books and teachers express similar ideas to Napoleon Hill’s classic book ”Think and Grow Rich”. Byrne was inspired in particular by New Thought pioneer Wallace D. Wattles’ [...]

McKenna learned hypnosis and NLP from Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. McKenna uses Thought Field Therapy in many of his television demonstrations and studied under Roger Callahan, the creator of TFT. Roger Callahan, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Roger received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Syracuse [...]




