The Hypnosis

10/16/2023

Sometimes we can all use a little help in changing our behavior when we aren’t able to do so on our own, and hypnosis is one of the most commonly employed practices. But, in some cases, it can work so well that we may unintentionally end up overcompensating, prompting us to act out in ways that yield a whole new crop of issues to contend with. Such is the case with Vera (Asta Kamma August), who gives hypnosis a try to quit smoking, a behavior she regards as unhealthy and antisocial. However, Vera’s hypnotherapist (Karin de Frumerie) suspects that her patient’s reluctance in explaining her reasons for seeking out treatment suggests that she’s there for more than just kicking the habit. This hunch leads her to conduct a profoundly impactful hypnotherapy session that produces a radical, albei

11/17/2025

If you’ve seen “Dragon’s Den” then you’ll be familiar with the concept of some nervous entrepreneurial types making a pitch for resources to a panel of investors. Well here it’s “Vera” (Asta Kamma August) and her boyfriend “André” (Herbert Nordrum) who have come up with a plan to help out women with certain, un-defined, medical problems. With the big day approaching, she goes off to see a hypnotherapist whom she has read can help wean her off tobacco. Afterwards, when they arrive at the hotel, she appears different. Indeed, her behaviour becomes more and more eccentric and their partnership starts to develop some cracks. Those are exacerbated when he, always eager to say the right thing, finds that she is regularly contradicting him, even tripping him up, in front of the group’s leader “Ju