The Status of Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy
HypnoAnalysis / Hypnopsychotherapy
As an Empirically Validated Clinical Integration

Hypnosis has more than 220 years of scientific research documenting trials and reports to substantiate its clinical effectiveness.

Since Benjamin Franklin reviewed the work of Mesmer in 1785 which is referred to as the Report of the Royal Commission, over 100,000 research projects have been completed.

Over the past 50 years the study of hypnotic phenomena falls within the domain of normal cognitive and clinical science with empirical work published in such Journals as Science, Procedures of the National Academy of Science, Lancet and the Journals of the America Medical Association.

Hypnosis is one of the most thoroughly research forms of psychotherapeutic intervention, with more than 7000 publications since 1966 in more than 150 different medical, psychological and interdisciplinary journals.

No contemporary psychotherapy has a longer history of empirical examination, and very few psychotherapy literatures can match the sheer bulk of research.