Hypnosis In Children: The Complete Cure Of Forty Cases Of Asthma

Abstract

A detailed case report is presented of a 29-year-old woman who participated in 41 psychotherapy sessions in 8 months in order to help her son who suffered from severe asthma. It was thought that if the emotional atmosphere around the child could be improved then, perhaps, his asthmatic attacks could be reduced. As the sessions progressed, the boy's asthma attacks became less frequent and also less severe. On follow-up four years after the end of the psychotherapy sessions the woman reported that her son still gets allergy shots once a week but rarely misses a day of school because of asthma.