Original Articles: PDF OnlyEffects of hypnotic, placebo, and salicylic acid treatments on wart regression.Spanos, N P; Williams, V; Gwynn, M I Author Information Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Psychosomatic Medicine: January 1990 - Volume 52 - Issue 1 - p 109-114 Buy Abstract Subjects with warts on their hands and/or feet were randomly assigned to a hypnotic suggestion, topical salicylic acid, placebo, or no treatment control condition. Subjects in the three treated groups developed equivalent expectations of treatment success. Nevertheless, at the six-week follow-up interval only the hypnotic subjects had lost significantly more warts than the no treatment controls. Theoretical implications are discussed. Copyright © 1990 by American Psychosomatic Society
