SUBJECT: girl.
PROBLEM: severe anxiety since ten years; psychoanalysis useful but not satisfactory.
APPROACH: indirect hypnosis; spontaneous development of hypnotic phenomena; astonishment for her somnambulistic experience during hypnosis.
RESULT: amazing discovery of a sudden, total loss of her desire to smoke; strong reduction of her anxiety.
FOLLOW-UP (3 years): well-controlled anxiety; found a stable partner; pregnant.
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