About John Butler: Hypnosurgery Live

John Butler will hypnotise the patient before he undergoes a hernia operation, in Hypnosurgery Live. More4 10 April 9pm 2006.

PhD (Lond.), MBSH, CHT, MA, BA (Hons.), BSc (Hons.), DHP, Dip AT.

Dr John Butler is an approved hypnotherapy instructor with British Society of Hypnotherapists (est 1950) and American Council of Hypnotist Examiners.

He has over 25 years of proven experience as a highly successful clinical practitioner and over 15 years as a teacher of hypnotherapy.

In 1992, he tutored the first official training in hypnotherapy in the NHS, in London.

Since the early 1980s, he has been highly influential in the areas of establishing educational and training standards for hypnotherapists and in achieving public and political recognition of hypnotherapy as a major healing art.

He organised the first conference of heads and delegates of hypnotherapy schools and registers in 1986 to formally initiate processes of standard-setting for the training and professional regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK.

His contribution to the profession was formally recognized in 2004 by an award from a national confederation of hypnotherapists.