The relationship of hypnosis to academic psychology has through the years been similar to its relationship to psychiatry—sometimes popular and supported by those of prestige within their disciplines, sometimes in disrepute and carried on only by those on the fringes. This cyclical history is well known, and we suffer a little even today as we attempt to maintain interest in hypnosis within the scientific community, although many signs, such as the IBRO-sponsored conference in France in October 1967, indicate a more favourable contemporary attitude.