Dr. Victor Rausch, DDS, is a hypnotherapist and retired dental surgeon. He graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto in 1964. For five years he served with the Canadian Armed Forces in the capacities of clinician, clinical instructor and lecturer in hypnosis at the Dental School, Canadian Forces Base Borden. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a Diplomate of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis in Dentistry. Among his many contributions, Dr. Rausch put hypnosis to the ultimate test twenty-five years ago. He had major abdominal surgery using self hypnosis as the sole anesthetic agent. At the time, it was considered a major medical breakthrough and became an international news item. In his role as Dental Officer, he integrated hypnosis into the clinical aspects of dental treatment. His main interest lay in developing techniques for rapid relief of apprehension, pain control, bleeding control and rapid post-operative healing. Dr. Rausch left the Armed Forces in 1969 and opened a private dental practice in Waterloo, Ontario. He has appeared on numerous TV Programs such as ‘Nature of Things with David Suzuki’, ‘Man Alive’, ‘At Discovery Canada’ and Vision TV – Enigma’, to name a few. Dr. Rausch has been on the teaching faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, and was a member of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. He is actively involved in Energy Medicine research as well as teaching.