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Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 21 July 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Hypnotherapy. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Article needs a thorough review[edit]

I got behind reviewing this article. As I'm catching up, I'm noticing edits, often from WP:SPA accounts, that may have WP:PROMO, WP:OR, WP:MEDRS, or WP:FRINGE problems:

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Nyeogmi (talk · contribs) did some cleanup, but I'm concerned this new editor may have removed properly referenced information
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I'm noting these here as it's going to take time to unravel it all. --Hipal (talk) 21:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Go ahead and restore stuff if as far as you can tell it is properly referenced. You've got the revision logs, so it's all laid out!

I'll caution that on some of the articles where I removed content, the sources seemed to fail WP criteria. (ex, I seem to remember some citations pointing at academic-sounding organizations that were actually just two unaccredited people with a web page) Nyeogmi (talk) 23:46, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yes, there's a lot of poorly sourced information being added that reviewers are catching, especially WP:MEDRS and WP:PROMO problems. I made the note because I've not found the time for a thorough review after noticing some of these problems months ago. --Hipal (talk) 16:52, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology Capstone[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2022 and 7 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Eresha8 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Birmaniahern, Denisej 2, Hkhan11, Dawson Thornburgh.

— Assignment last updated by Hkhan11 (talk) 00:19, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Uses[edit]

There is some question as to whether the "uses" section is appropriately demarcating how hypnotherapy is actually used. Most hypnotherapy is used in the context of alternative medicine and the precise rationale is not well-defined in terms of condition or symptom. Thus, this section is entirely misleading. The best reviews we have on the subject is that people seek out hypnotherapy for such a wide range of reasons that to single them out as we do on this page is to do a disservice to the reader in actually describing how such activities are actually practiced. I don't even know how to begin to address this, but a complete overhaul seems like it is probably a good idea. Note also that this issue has been discussed on WP:FTN. jps (talk) 16:24, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: ANTH 193 - Behavioral Science in Practice[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 August 2023 and 10 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Bobowikipidia (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Dkhora (talk) 19:37, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead in[edit]

The lead for this article is ridiculously negative, given that hypnotherapy is widely accepted for certain conditions such as IBS. This clearly needs to be rephrased to something with a more neutral point of view to avoid misleading readers Publius Obsequium (talk) 00:38, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The lead is based on the article, and the not well supported and lack of evidence indicating any level of efficacy are based especially on the Efficacy section. That section in turn is based on the best possible sources, Cochrane meta-analyses.

That beats "widely accepted" by a very long margin. --Hob Gadling (talk) 06:55, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]