SUBJECT: woman.
PROBLEM: tics (muscular spasms) and continuous facial scratching.
APPROACH: hypnotic training, verbal and non verbal (conditioning) hypnosis, somnambulistic trance, positive hallucinations, total amnesia for trance events; central hypnotic suggestion: "calmly elaborate the most suitable, good, and opportune way to develop the ability to lose the ability to develope tics"; induction of a general post-hypnotic amnesia, further training.
RESULT: tics disappeared, with initial subject's unawareness of their disappearance.
FOLLOW-UP (4 years): absence of any tic.
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