Patients struggling with pain often seek out hypnosis when they've run out of options. But if you ask David Spiegel, MD, a leading expert in clinical hypnosis, it should be a first — not last — resort ...

This 200-year-old treatment can be effective for a variety of conditions, but it does take work. By Hannah Seo In the 1770s, a German physician named Franz Mesmer made a splash when he said he could ...