{"id":728,"date":"2025-04-18T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/?p=728"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:43:23","slug":"can-hypnosis-cure-our-harmful-spending-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/can-hypnosis-cure-our-harmful-spending-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Can hypnosis cure our harmful spending habits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times<br \/>\n18-04-2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9ceda1c1-6f94-43ff-a5b8-6303901da086\">Source hyperlink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Financial Times report explores the emerging use of clinical hypnotherapy to address financial disorders, including compulsive gambling and overspending<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on \u201cSunny\u201d, a former gambling addict in London, who turned to hypnosis as a last resort after trying other treatments. He recalls:<br \/>\n\u201cI came out and it left me [with] a feeling of \u2018I don\u2019t even know what it\u2019s like to gamble\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hypnotherapists featured in the article help clients reshape subconscious drivers of harmful behaviors through techniques like visualization and conversational hypnosis. The narrative acknowledges that skepticism remains due to hypnosis\u2019s public portrayal and lack of standard regulation<\/p>\n<p>A 2014 clinical trial is cited, showing hypnosis to be at least as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating gambling addiction, with over 50% of participants remaining relapse-free at six months<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts, including King\u2019s College neuroscientist Devin Terhune, emphasize the growing legitimacy of hypnosis in therapeutic contexts:<br \/>\n\u201ca small, but growing, army of respected doctors \u2026 argue that hypnosis has been unfairly dismissed in the medical field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that in countries like France and the Netherlands, hypnosis is already used in hospitals to relieve pain\u2014a sign of increasing clinical acceptance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times 18-04-2025 Source hyperlink A Financial Times report explores the emerging use of clinical hypnotherapy to address financial disorders, including compulsive gambling and overspending The story centers on \u201cSunny\u201d, a former gambling addict in London, who turned to hypnosis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/can-hypnosis-cure-our-harmful-spending-habits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}