I’ve been focusing a lot on the “health science” part of my core topic and not saying much about the “hypnotherapy” part for a while. Here are a couple of links to redress the balance.
A London blogger known as “The Intern” posts about her experience of hypnotherapy to change the way you view food. Her report is similar to others I’ve read: she says, “Not quite sure how to explain it, but bad food just doesn’t seem to be on my radar like it was yesterday.” Her hypnotherapist clearly helped her succeed in her goal: to think and feel differently about food, to just not want food that wasn’t good for her.
And (via Hypno News Now), an article in the Harvard Gazette from five years ago about a study on hypnosis and wound healing which indicates that hypnosis can speed healing from surgery. It was a placebo-controlled study in which the clinical staff assessing the results were blind to which condition (experimental, placebo or no treatment) each patient had received. The abstract of the study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, indicates statistically significant differences in the hypnosis group. However, it had a very small number of participants (18 total, evenly split between three experimental conditions). In the Harvard Gazette article the study author agrees that it would be good to follow up with a larger study, but as far as I can discover she has not so far done so, and nor has anyone else.
Perhaps when I reach the point of doing a thesis in Health Science I can talk some surgeons into letting me do a larger-scale study.
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