09/08/2026
🧠✨ Covert Hypnosis: How Does Social Influence Work?
You're listening to the interview of ISH Chair of Education & Training Committee, Enayat Shahidi, with the workshop facilitators Mehdi Fathi and Alireza Fathi
📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026
🕔 17:00 – 20:00 CEST
📖 Abstract
Hypnosis is traditionally presented as a distinct clinical intervention involving focused attention, suggestion, and altered responsiveness. However, the mechanisms that make hypnosis effective are not exclusive to the hypnotic setting. They continuously operate in everyday life through social interaction, culture, authority, language, media, education, religion, marketing, and interpersonal relationships.
👉 This masterclass explores hypnosis as the ethical and therapeutic application of naturally occurring social influence mechanisms, supported by neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and clinical medicine.
Through real clinical examples from surgery, obstetrics, pain management, dentistry, and trauma care, participants will discover how structured social influence can become safe and effective therapeutic hypnosis.
🎯 Participants will learn to:
• Explain hypnosis through the lens of social influence.
• Identify covert influence in everyday communication.
• Differentiate ethical therapeutic influence from manipulation.
• Apply neuroscience-informed principles to clinical hypnosis.
💡 Every hypnosis involves social influence, although not every social influence constitutes hypnosis.
👉 Are you a member of the International Society of Hypnosis (ISH), an ISH Constituent Society, or a Constituent Society of the European Society of Hypnosis?
If so, you are welcome to register for and participate in the ISH Monthly Global Webinar. Register today for a special discounted price of $20 US Dollars
🌐 👉 Join us: https://www.ishhypnosis.org/events/is...
