Episode 113 – Michael Beligiannis

Adam interviews this week’s guest, Michael Beligiannis.

This week’s ‘Hypnosis in the News’ section features a story from a decade ago that bothered Adam then and now as he urges the hypnotherapy field to adopt a Michelle Obama quote.

This week’s professional discussion with guest Michael Beligiannis discusses a range of additional topics including how hard it is to shift biases, the perception of stage hypnosis by established authors, and Michael also cleverly starts interviewing Adam on a number of topics – This week’s hypnosis in the news section features a story from a while back about a ‘hypnotist thief’ that was popular in the media.

The Factoid of the week features a comprehensive study exploring the media’s reported ‘hypnotist thief’ stories spanning many decades and are analysed from a psychological standpoint.

References from this week’s episode:

This Weeks Guest Links:

* The Website of Michael Beligiannis

This week’s ‘Hypnosis In The News’ stories:

* Hypnotist thief puts shopkeeper in trance before robbing him.

Factoid of the Week:

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“Robbery by Hypnosis” in Italy: A Psycho-Criminological Analysis of the Phenomenon Based on 20 Years of Newspaper Articles (1988–2007). 

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