News

1. latest news
2. beware of traps!
3. my activities
4. Italian status

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Latest news

[up]. Information in this section is not permanent. Copyright (C) Alberto Torelli.

• 2010 (July): the flu scandal (here).
• 2010 (July): new scientific publications about hypnosis.
• 2010 (July): also in Australia hypnotherapy has been removed from the competencies of the psychology (source: The South Australian Government Gazette, p. 3338, Act 1 July 2010).
• 2010 (June): final revision of this new website of mine (add-ons, corrections, and useful clarifications for the public and the consumer).
• 2010 (May): copyright infringement of my writings. Further details are reported here, in the section "Italian status" (here).
• 2010 (April): AT LAST, I have completed a big reorganization of my website. ENJOY!
• 2010 (March): new cases (report number 112).

Beware of traps!

[up]. This section is aimed to protect the consumer and to defend the public against misinformation and its consequences (financial exploitation, harms to the health, development of illegitimate compliances and dependencies). More specific informative documents are published elsewhere in the website in the pertinent sections. Below I have more generally collected several important things that I have found in the scientific literature. Copyright (C) Alberto Torelli.

• 2010: H1N1-flu alarm was aimed at profit (PDF, 77 KB) (PDF, 290 KB).
• 2010: how to unmask immediately a false hypnotist (GIF, 16 KB).
• 2010: hypnotherapy is NOT psychotherapy (PDF, 103 KB).
• 2010: doctors and therapists are incompetent in hypnosis (PDF, 79 KB).
• 2009: psychology spreads wrong information on hypnosis (PDF, 67 KB).
• 2008: modern hypnosis is NOT what you think (PDF, 100 KB).
• 2008: several new antidepressants are almost useless (PDF, 605 KB).
• 2007: benzodiazepines are more harmful than drugs (GIF, 18 KB) (PDF, 125 KB).
• 2006: financial ties between physicians and pharmaceutical industry (GIF, 12 KB) (PDF, 94 KB) (PDF, 54 KB, Italian).
• 2005: homeopathy is just a personalized placebo (PDF, 51 KB).

My activities

[up]. Events and my activities about hypnosis are collected here. Copyright (C) Alberto Torelli.

• 2009: Sydney (Australia): my seminar of hypnotherapy (PDF, 326 KB) (MP3, 13.1 MB).
• 2009: my public conference on clinical hypnosis (PDF, 209 KB).
• 2008: Phoenix (Arizona): mission completed! (JPG, 135 KB) (FLV, 3.2 MB) (PDF, 10.1 MB).
• 2008: my lesson at the A.V.O. training course (PDF, 83 KB).
• 2004: dialogue with Ernest Lawrence Rossi (PDF, 87 KB)
• 2003: my first conference about hypnotherapy (GIF, 58 KB).

Italian status

[up]. The extremely powerful Italian lobbies of physicians and psychologists don't want to accept that today there are also the natural medicines (paramedical, holistic, energetic, psychosomatic, etc.), are tremendously hostile toward complementary approaches and independent clinical hypnosis, and don't hesitate to spread false and misleading information, as witnessed by some documents that I have gathered in this section. Italian law obstinates itself against the recognition of the hypnotherapy profession (which is now diffuse around the world), and still strives and tries even today to dissolve and absorb modern hypnosis (aimed to protect and improve the well-being) into psychotherapy (aimed to cure the psychopathologies). Italy is stuck back in the past century, when there were only medicine and psychotherapy, and nothing else. Fortunately, today we have also the European laws, and in the European Union there are the hypnotherapists as well, and therefore, if Italy intends to stay in Europe, then it will have to resign itself to the fact that medieval age has gone. Copyright (C) Alberto Torelli.

• 2010: an Italian copies my documents and removes my copyright (PDF, 50 KB).
• 2010: how to "hypnotize" easily the Italians (PDF, 149 KB).
• 2009: an Italian newspaper tells lies on me and on hypnosis (PDF, 99 KB).
• 2009: Italian yellow pages are deceiving about hypnosis (PDF, 91 KB).
• 2008: hypnotherapist in Italy: a pioneer in the land of nobody (PDF, 72 KB)
• 2006: nonsense about hypnosis even in the Italian penal code (PDF, 44 KB).
• 2005: Italian neurologists and psychiatrists ignore hypnosis (PDF, 253 KB).
• 2002: hypnosis no longer among the fees of psychological services (PDF, 46 KB, Italian).