Stephen and others:
As the M. Gwynn in the reference you've noted below, I finally found a
copy of the paper, and can shed some light on the wart study.
Hypnotic subjects (not preselected on the basis of responsiveness) lost
more warts (M=1.30, SD=1.57) six weeks after initial treatment than
Stephen Black writes on 14 Feb 99,:
But sometimes the combination of what appears to be a
well-designed study (the abstract notes that in addition to hypnosis, the
other groups were topical treatment, placebo, and no treatment) and an
accomplished experimentalist is too difficult to ignore.
That spontaneous remission accounts for the clinical observation that
hypnosis appears to work for warts is very possible. This would make an
excellent assignment for a research class -- to design an appropriate
empirical investigation. It would also make an excellent thesis or
dissertation.
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That spontaneous remission accounts for the clinical observation that
hypnosis appears to work for warts is very possible. This would make an
excellent assignment for a research class -- to design an appropriate
empirical investigation. It
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Stephen Black wrote:
Before people get too excited about the spontaneous remission
explanation, let me remind everyone that the reference cited by David
Epstein to the work of the late, great Nicholas Spanos compared
hypnosis with placebo and no-treatment groups. The
