“…hypnosis, or self hypnosis neutralise the bodily stress and have ‘a statistically significant correlation with pregnancy’ …you need not be involved in in vitro fertilisation to derive the benefit of this behavioural disengagement.

The only difference between the experimental & control groups was that at the time of embryo transfer, the experimental group received a hypnotic intervention.

The study noted that ‘pregnancy rates of the experimental group were double’ those of the controls.”

On Fertile Ground; Healing Infertility – Helen Adrienne (discussing case-controlled studies reportd in Fertility & Sterelity – May 2006 & 2009 (Rappaport-Hubschmann)).