In the Financial Times supplement of Saturday April 19th 2025, in a major feature article, Isabel Woodford has investigated the use of clinical hypnosis in connection with financial pressures and related anxieties with the addiction to gambling.
While this is a fairly uncharted field Woodford comments that although little research has been done in this area preliminary evidence from a 2014 study of gambling and gambling addiction is looking promising. In this study, gambling addicts demonstrated that both cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy were both effective in breaking the gambling habit.
In this study, more than half of the gamblers involved did nor relapse back into their old ways over a six month follow-up period.
In the 2014 study, one participant, identified only as “Sunny” reported that “Something had happened inside the hypnosis room and that he had not been back inside a casino since the hypnosis session.”
The fact that the Financial Times has devoted a full page to this article is a pointer towards the prevalence of gambling addition and financial anxiety at the present time.
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Source: https://www.ft.com/