Biography

As a surgeon, Dr. Jack Gibson carried out over 4000 procedures using Hypnosis instead of anaesthetic.
These included major operations, surgical procedures and treatment of dislocations and fractures. He has also successfully and well recorded, cured himself of Skin Cancer.

Jack Gibson graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, in 1933, having won almost every available medal (Gold & Silver in Anatomy and Operative Surgery) . He gained the fellowship in 1934 (the youngest ever to be awarded this distinction at the age of 25) and the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from London in 1935.
After a hospital appointment in England, he returned to Africa as Dean of the Native Medical Aids School. He has worked in a leper colony and treated prostitutes in Aden.
After the outbreak of war, he worked in England as a surgeon in the hospitals of the Emergency Medical Service. He treated numerous soldiers, wounded at Dunkirk during D Day and held the most senior surgical post in Ethiopia.

Back in Ireland, he took up the post of County Surgeon in Naas, Co. Kildare and continued to develop his method of Deep Relaxation as an alternative to anasthesia and drugs and has devoted himself to using Hypnosis as a mind-strengthening, relaxation therapy, to overcome any mental or physical condition.

In 1989, he first published Relax and Live, a lifestyleself-help book and aged 90, Dr. Gibson published his biography, "Memoirs of an Irish Surgeon".
His latest book, due for publishing at the end of 2002, is a collection of incredible and inspirational case histories, penned by grateful patients and other respected Professionals, worldwide, This is a true and accurate history of the work of a reknowned surgeon and futuristic doctor.

His video "The Power of the Subconcious" contains footage of many successful operations and procedures, including the sandpapering of a girls face, under Hypnosis, for alleviation of Acne and a man undergoing an operation to remove a blood clot behind the eye.

Dr. Gibson strongly believes in self-help and has a compilation of 40 tapes, covering an immense band of topics, from fighting phobias and fears, painless childbirth, tackling alcoholism, business and stress issues to pain relief, smoking, snoring and weight control, eating disorders and asthma. (See List overleaf).

In 1969, he launched a record, "How to Stop Smoking which went straight to No. 1 for six weeks, depriving The Beatles of the top spot and went on to be the biggest selling non-music single of all time.

He also recorded the first cassette on psychosamatic illness in the world and performed the first video production of any operation without anasthetic on video.

Today, at 92, Dr. Gibson continues to treat patients with every conceivable mental and physical injury and ailment, seven days a week. His practice is at his private home in Naas, the 800 year old, St. David's Castle, where he has lived for 40 years. Steeped in history, also, The Irish Parliament was once held in the castle.