Joe Keeton was born in Derbyshire. He has devoted most of his adult life to the development of his skill as a hypnotherapist. He has worked as a soldier, a catering manager, a taxi-driver, an electrician, a college lecturer and a photographer to finance his pioneering work into regression and healing through hypnosis. Co-author of the highly acclaimed new Hope through Hypnotherapy and Encounters with the Past, he has hundreds of successful cures to his credit. He lives in Meols, Wirral. Simon Petherick is the author of The Visitor's Guide to London, The Essential Civil Servant, The Eccentric's Quotation Book and The Culture-Vulture's Quotation Book. He lives in south-east London.