Jack Stanley Gibson (1909–2005) was an Irish surgeon remembered for having advocated the use of hypnosis as an alternative to anaesthetics, not only through his surgical practice, but also through popular phonograph records, books, and videotapes.
[citation needed] After locums in Aden, Nyasaland, and South Africa, he became Dean of Durban Medical School in 1939.
During World War II, he served with the Emergency Medical Service in Britain, treating wounded soldiers.
[1] In 1959 Gibson became County Surgeon for Kildare in the Republic of Ireland, working mainly at Naas Hospital until he retired in 1979.
He then dedicated himself to treating psychosomatic illnesses, using deep relaxation techniques and expanding his Relaxology Series of self-help recordings, until he died 25 years later.