>It's extremely difficult to account for those effects in a one-man-study
Then how can you draw any conclusions?
>https://med.stanford.edu/news/ ...
This shows that the brain is altered during hypnosis. This is also true of sleep and many other activities and not too surprising.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ ...
Not very cited. The question isn't so much "how much of hypnosis is placebo?" but more "how did you account for placebo in your testing?".
What we want is documentation that your specific device / method has lasting effects in double blind trials. If you can't provide that, how can you sell the product?
Was just talking about my own personal experience as founder and daily user, in the vein of an experience review as one user requested in another comment.
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/hypnosis-for-ptsd-ev... A placebo-controlled study found that it was effective as a treatment for PTSD and had significant and durable effects weeks after. As well as trials in treating IBS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11151439 showing similar levels of long-term effectiveness. These trials are only a subset and only show the effects removing the effects of placebo in double-blind trials and the ability for long-term effects; not evidence that our app works.
Currently, we're relying on the evidence supporting hypnosis itself rather than research conducted into the efficacy of Mindset. Considering the stage we're at we think that's reasonable, especially considering we provide a significant opportunity for users to experience the effects themselves in the app.
In the future, however, we definitely will conduct double-blind trials into the effectiveness of Mindset but it is just not possible at this time.
Thanks for taking such a considered look at the app, appreciate the interest!
No worries Bill, I understand that hypnosis has a lot of negative perceptions and stigma surrounding it and that it will require strong scientific evidence to fully become mainstream and accepted.
