Is There A Placebo Effect In Root-Cause Hypnotherapy?
A common technique in scientifically-based “double-blind” tests to establish the validity of a therapy or a drug involves the use of a placebo. This is essentially a neutral substance which doesn’t accomplish anything in and of itself. Analogically, a person’s mere “belief” in the efficiency of a given therapy or a drug can be said to be due to a “placebo effect.” With this in mind, it is important to address the understandable concern regarding Root Cause Hypnotherapy and whether placebo effect can play a role in it – or indeed in hypnotherapy in general. Placebo effect remains one of the biggest puzzles in modern medicine and psychology alike. Why? Because, undeniably and to the distress of almost everyone – it works more often than it doesn’t. Double-blind tests routinely utilize placebos to test the efficiency of new drugs. In many such tests placebos perform exactly as can be expected, i.e. they achieve exactly nothing, and thus the given drug can be effectively tested for its eff
