Sidney Petrie

Sidney Petrie
Born	28 October 1923(1923-10-28) London, England, United Kingdom
Died	15 January 1988 (64) New York
Nationality	British; American (nat. 1954)

Sidney Petrie (October 28, 1923 - January 15, 1988) was a British-born American hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and diet advisor, the founder of the New York Institute of Hypnotherapy and creator of his namesake Petrie Method, a program using self-hypnosis to motivate the user toward weight loss or tobacco smoking cessation. Petrie co-authored several books with Robert B. Stone during the 1960s and 1970s, including Martinis and Whipped Cream: The New Carbo-Cal Way to Lose Weight and Stay Slim (1966).

Selected Bibliography

• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1965), How to Reduce and Control Your Weight Through Self-Hypnotism, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall 
• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1966), Martinis and Whipped Cream: The New Carbo-Cal Way to Lose Weight and Stay Slim, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co. 
• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1967), How to Strengthen Your Life with Mental Isometrics, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co. 
• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1973), Hypno-Cybernetics: Helping Yourself to a Rich, New Life, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co. 
• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1974), Fat Destroyer Foods: The Magic Metabolizer Diet, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co. 
• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1975), Hypno-Dietetics: The New, No-Willpower Way to Speedy, Permanent Weight Control, New York: P. H. Wyden 
• Petrie, Sidney; Stone, Robert B. (1983), Helping Yourself with Autogenics, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co.