Scientific References -

Want a proof that hypnosis works?

Hypnosis is superior to standard treatments regarding side effects in breast surgery patients. Additionally, the institutional costs for surgical breast cancer procedures were $8561 per patient, while in the hypnosis group cost the institution $772.71 less per patient than those in the control group
Cost comparison between standard intravenous conscious sedation and sedation with self-hypnotic relaxation – cost associated with standard sedation during a procedure was $638, compared with $300 for sedation with adjunct hypnosis.
Study link: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/radiol.2222010528
Hypnosis is more effective in significantly reducing childbirth pain than standard medical care, counseling, and childbirth education classes.
Study link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735811001000
Hypnosis Reduces Distress and Duration of an Invasive Medical Procedure for Children(!)
Study link: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/115/1/e77/66983/Hypnosis-Reduces-Distress-and-Duration-of-an?autologincheck=redirected
Yet another scientific research showing usefulness of hypnosis in anesthesia, eliminating nausea, and bringing further savings in surgical procedures.
Study link: https://academic-oup-com.translate.goog/jnci/article/99/17/1280/2522362?login=false&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=pl&_x_tr_hl=pl

The hypnotic anchor reduces stress in experimental participants performing tasks under the influence of strong stressful stimuli.
Study link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861489/#Sec18
Stress reduction for students – Research conducted on a carefully selected group of medical students, showing that most of them showed a significant positive effect of hypnosis on stress reduction
Study link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-017-1806-0
Group hypnosis for stress reduction and improved stress coping – participants in a hypnotherapeutic group showed reduced perceived psychological stress measured by a visual analogue scale, Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale, also reduction of depression scale and improved quality of life compared to individuals in a control group.
Study link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-020-03129-6

Hypnotherapy significantly not only reduced the fear of public speaking, but also increased its quality.
Study link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000578949780038X?via%3Dihub

Hypnotherapy improves self-esteem, sense of agency and decreeses the susceptibility to criticism and comparison with others for oncological patients (!)
Study link: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.translate.goog/33025372/

Hypnosis improves sleep quality – more than half of the included studies indicated some positive effects of hypnosis on sleep outcomes.
Study link: https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/full/10.5664/jcsm.6952
Deepening Sleep by Hypnotic Suggestion – slow wave activity was significantly enhanced after hypnotic suggestions and time spent awake was significantly reduced
Study link: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/37/6/1143/2416924

Hypnosis improves the access to memory and confidence in one’s answers (based on test of remembering the list of words).
Study link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38569321/
Hypnosis successfuly induces hypermnesia (increesed access to the memory)
Study link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9868810/
Just a 3-minute short hypnotherapy session allowed to reach much further in memories than any other psychological method (up to 12 months of age (!))
Study link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10553311/

Hypnotherapy raises the focus and decreeses the reaction time in people with ADHD (effect stands for a long time after the therapy!).
Study link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0126497

Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brain – The results of this study showed that people under hypnosis could modulate the neural responses that underlie color perception – in other words, they were able to change their perception of reality on a biological level (!)
Study link: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.157.8.1279#sec-3

Hypnosis reduces internal conflicts and the so-called “Stroop effect” already in 0.1s after capturing a visual stimulus (at the stage of the anterior cingulate cortex).
Study link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0503064102

Hypnotherapy helps with weight loss during cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) – results showed that subjects lost TWICE AS MUCH weight in therapy with hypnosis than in therapy without hypnosis.
Study link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8698945/

Albert Einstein – was known for his daily afternoon hypnosis sessions, and supposedly during one of them he came up with his famous theory of relativity,
Winston Churchill used post-hypnotic suggestions to stay awake at night and avoid fatigue during World War II,
Sylvester Stallone collaborated with a hypnotist during the filming of Rocky in 1975,
Tiger Woods used hypnosis in his training routine to improve his golf game,
Princess Diana used hypnosis to practice public speaking and build self-confidence,
Prince Harry and Samuel L. Jackson quit smoking thanks to hypnosis,

Undocumented cases based on media reports:

Orlando Bloom and Lily Allen – according to media reports, used hypnotherapy to lose weight,
Bruce Willis – stopped stuttering thanks to hypnosis,
Michael Jackson used hypnosis to overcome mental blocks and relaxation, and many others.