Hypnosis can be used in two ways, as suggestion therapy or for patient analysis.

Suggestion therapy: The hypnotic state makes the person better able to respond to suggestions.

Similarly, patients with habit cough have been reported to improve with use of suggestion therapy [ 22 ] that probably represents a form of hypnosis.

Successful treatments have involved self-hypnosis, speech therapy, and a brief course of suggestion therapy outlined in the Annals of Allergy, Volume 67, December 1991, pp.

Skin conductance measurement is also becoming more popular in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy practice where it can be used as a method of detecting depth of hypnotic trance prior to suggestion therapy commencing.

After Wickland's death on November 13, 1945, a man named Wing Anderson, a pioneer in his own right in sleep suggestion therapy for the correction of psychosomatic ills, purchased the copyrights of both books.