Jorge Cuadros Fernández completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, where he was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine until 1988, the year in which he traveled to Madrid to complete a PhD in Biological Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid , which he obtained in 1993. Since 2001 he studied Clinical Hypnosis, until he obtained the Master’s Degree in Clinical Hypnosis from the Ateneo de Madrid, in 2015. He is a Senior Clinical Embryologist from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology and vice president of the Scientific Hypnological Society , which he founded in Spain in 2010.
At Homo curiosus, an outreach event held in Bilbao, Jorge Cuadros answered some of the most intriguing questions about hypnosis , and revealed the position that science has regarding this practice. His talk was enlivened by the documentary The Science of Hypnosis.
Documentary The Science of Hypnosis
Hypnosis has fed all kinds of ghosts. Some gave hypnotists fabulous powers, while others saw nothing but grotesque hoax. This distrust was based on the theatricality of carnival hypnotists, often equated with magicians. The shows of modern hypnotists continue to fascinate, but for some time science has become more interested in hypnosis, to the point that it is officially recognized for certain medical indications, for example, as an anesthetic supplement during an operation, to treat phobias, addictions or psychological trauma, and is also used to better know or overcome. But what is hypnosis actually? Is everyone receptive to it? How has it evolved over the years?
