Playbill

February, 1961

The power of mind over mind has fascinated man since time immemorial. The modern word we use for the scientific application of this psychic phenomenon is hypnotism. There is a growing public awareness of this still little-known and less-understood power; in fact, as our lead article makes clear, it is much mis understood – as a result of its being deemed by the medical and psychiatric professions too arcane and potent to be shared with the layman, and its theatric exploitation as mumbo-jumbo occ...