HYPNOTISM

On this page Mystic Molly looks at HYPNOTISM and in particular Peter Casson (right), the stage hypnotist who made the public aware of the art in his stage performances in the 1950s.

Casson also began a lifelong application of his unique skills into more serious fields, lecturing in psychotherapy, painless childbirth and natural anaesthesia. He devoted one week in three to a free clinic during a time when he was among the top earners in British entertainment. Although his abilities were occasionally treated with disdain by a clannish and bemused British medical community, he was asked in 1948 to give the annual lecture by the Hunterian Society as well as later serving as an adviser to the Neurology Department of Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Here is a Youtube video about his stage performances, often filling 2,000 seat theatres, including the London Palladium.

Peter Casson sadly died in 1995 at the age of 74.