Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory: an updated model of clinical hypnosis

The mind did not evolve to think. It evolved to forage. Knowing this, what if hypnosis isn't something strange or rare—but something your brain already knows how to do? In Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory, clinical hypnotist James M. Harrison argues that long before hypnosis was an idea about the workings of the unconscious mind, nervous systems had already evolved the ability to mental...