Description: This wide-ranging session traces the evolution of hypnotic theory and practice across Eastern Europe, from Pavlovian “partial sleep” models to more contemporary, active, and permissive approaches. Presenters review research on induction methods, ideomotor action, posthypnotic signaling, and spontaneous trance, along with cross-cultural clinical innovations in medicine, psychotherapy, and child treatment. Participants gain a rare historical and scientific overview of how hypnosis has been studied, taught, and applied in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and beyond.