Hypnosis Research

Research, Statistics & Scientific Papers

There have been many hypnosis studies and scientific hypnotherapy research projects conducted over the last 100 years. You can find out more about how hypnosis has been analysed, scrutinised and compared to medication, placebo and other psychological interventions here:-

Self Hypnosis Research

This research was carried out over 19 weeks and was to discover if self-hypnosis was able to reduce symptoms of stress and moderate immune system reactivity to examination stress in 35 students. Twenty-one studentss we were randomly selected for self-hypnosis training and encouraged to practice it regularly. These students in the self-hypnosis group reported significantly less distress and anxiety than their nonintervention counterparts.

Read more at http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/58/3/249.short

Fibromyalgia & Pain - Hypnosis Research

Research has been recorded regarding the use of hypnosis and whether its use can have an impact on the pain that Fibromyalgia (FMS) causes patients.

The study was performed by Stuart W.G. Derbyshire (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham), Matthew G. Whalley and David A. Oakley (both from the Department of Psychology, Hypnosis Unit, University College London). and the findings published in the European Journal of Pain and carried out by

The published results highlights that Fibromyalgia patients said they experienced reduced pain following suggestions to that affect. There was also a statistically significant drop in pain if the hypnosis suggestions followed on from guiding the patient into hypnosis.

Article source: http://www.hypnosisunit.com/assets/files/Derbyshire2009.pdf

IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome/Disorder) & Hypnosis Research

Thirty IBS sufferers were studied in this reseach. Seven sessions of hypnotherapy were provide for 15 IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) patients and who had not responded to other treatments. The other patients had seven sessions of psychotherapy plus placebo pills (15 patients). The patients who had psychotherapy showed a small but significant improvements in abdominal discomfort and distension, and improvements in general well-being but not bowel activity pattern. The hypnotherapy patients showed a bigger difference in all central IBS symptoms and 3 months after the research the hypnotherapy patients didn't have any relapses.

Whorwell PJ; Prior A; Faragher EB. Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of severe refractory irritable-bowel syndrome.The Lancet 1984, 2: 1232-4

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