The TriState Society of Clinical Hypnosis is open to licensed healthcare professionals from the fields of medicine, psychology, social work, counseling, nursing and dentistry and other allied licensed healthcare professions. Membership in the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) is encouraged but not mandatory.
"One of the interesting ironies about hypnosis is that old fantasy that it takes away control" says leading expert Dr. David Spiegel of the Stanford University School of Medicine. "It's actually a way of enhancing people's control, of teaching them how to control aspects of their body's function and sensation that they thought they couldn't."