Hypnotherapy

Outdated, overwritten, I would expect that from an older book, but tbh I found no other book that looked promising on this topic. The author is quite confident in some claims that can be denied by a quick google search.

While I was reading, in a stroke of luck, I had the most horrible back pain so I could test self-hypnosis, but I didn't really manage to anesthetize myself. Whatever the effect should be I think it does work as a form of quick meditation to help me focus.

Hypnosis does seem like a real practice, but it's not as magical as this book claims - with a way too high success rate and as a tool that can retrieve memories (patients invent fake ones). I hope I can find newer book on this or smh.