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Any good practitioner should be able to give you research references about the techniques used with you. It is an ethical requirement that a National Guild of Hypnotists certified practitioner make only those claims that are supported by outcomes studies.
If you would like to find the research on your own I suggest you go to the web site of the National Institutes of Health of the United States (www.nih.gov). Enter the word “hypnosis” in the search box at the top right hand side of the screen and you will get a list of hundreds of recent research articles that have appeared in refereed scientific journals. Clicking on a study will bring up a short abstract of the research findings.
Last updated on May 17, 2008 by C. Scot Giles

