Clinical applications of self-hypnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

We conducted a systematic review of randomized control trials examining the efficacy of self- hypnosis as a clinical treatment. Searching for ‘self-hypnosis’, ‘self-hypnotic’, ‘autosuggestion’, and ‘autohypnosis’ returned 576 studies, of which 22 met the definition of being an RCT. Self-hypnosis …