In the best of families: understanding hypnosis complications in graduate and post-graduate training experiences.

Unexpected, unwanted complications co-incident with the use of hypnosis can occur even to mental health professionals and in advanced hypnosis training. This article reports three such incidents, which occurred in the practice of a trained, licensed mental health professional, and university faculty member. Suggestions are provided for preventive practice, which may have reduced the risk of untoward aftereffects.

Risk management in hypnotic recall of near-death experiences.

A substantial number of people facing physical and/or psychological crisis report having a near-death experience (NDE) involving a subjectively real experience of an alternate reality. Where NDE content is associated with positive emotions, benefit might be gained by hypnotic recall of the NDE, yet such recall might involve possible risk in the form of reactivation of the original crisis. In this article we describe a study involving hypnotic recall of positive NDEs by one male and five female subjects.