Thank you!

Adam.

Welcome back, Adam.

To be fair to newspapers in Russia, they do have to be careful what they report. It’s not exactly a free press. Writing articles linking hypnotists with psychics and reporting on the use of hypnosis by law enforcement is a lot safer than writing scathing attacks on the ruling regime. After all, they did just have an election where former President Putin told the people to vote for someone and- coincidentally I am certain- that person ended up as the next President.

Also, “The Silly Season” is not a localised phenomenon unique to Britain. That’s not to say that any reports or articles about hypnosis and/or the use of hypnosis are “silly” or “pieces for slow news days”. What I mean is, you’re more likely to see “odder” news stories like the ones you’ve highlighted during the summer months when news stories dry up (although these days, natural disasters and terrorism do tend to keep rearing their heads) and reporters are left with angry editors and blank pages to fill.

Quite a lot of the British media is still under the impression that hypnosis is about control. The whole “look into my eyes…you are in my power thing…” They see it as a novelty but things are changeing. Health and lifestyle magazines and women’s magazines are big players in media markets and they feature many articles linked to or featuring hypnosis. I know. I’ve written a few of them. To answer the growth in popularity of such magazines, many of the national papers now have regular health/alternative health/lifesyle supplements which feature hypnosis and things such as meditation, alternative therapies…etc..

Granted: I’ve still got more chance of ringing up a newspaper and selling them a story about how hypnosis made me quack like a duck every time the phone rings than I have selling them a story about how hypnosis has helped me make positive changes to my life over the course of the last decade. But times are moving forward and so are attitudes.

Marty Drury
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