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A hypnotic trance is not therapeutic in and of itself, but specific suggestions and images fed to clients in a trance can profoundly alter their behavior.

As they rehearse the new ways they want to think and feel, they lay the groundwork for changes in their future actions ... and she described specific ways this is operationalized for habit change and amelioration of phobias.

In her 1998 book of hypnotherapy case studies, she reviews the clinical research on hypnosis with dissociative disorders, smoking cessation, and insomnia and describes successful treatments of these complaints.