Hypnotherapy is treatment that uses a trance to change habits. Try hypnotherapy, a hypnotherapy session, hypnotherapy for smoking.
The evidence is best for pain and for irritable bowel syndrome, and thinner for the habits it is most advertised for. Nobody can be made to do anything under hypnosis, which is the misconception that will not die.
1nounhypnotherapyTreatment that uses a trance to change habits.
“She finally gave up smoking after a few sessions of hypnotherapy.”
hypnotherapy is a treatment.
Hypno-, from Greek hypnos, sleep, plus therapy.
New Latin
therapīa
English
therapy
English, today
hypnotherapy
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From hypno + therapy. therapy Borrowed from New Latin therapīa. From New Latin therapīa, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (“service, medical treatment”), from θεραπεύω (“to serve, treat medically”) -ία.
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