This report was approved by visit site the popular council of the BMA, thereby factor BMA policy and rendering hypnotherapy a form of "orthodox", as opposed to complementary or alternative, medicine.
In 1955, the Psychological Medicine Aggregation of the BMA commissioned a Subcommittee, led by Prof. T. Ferguson Rodger, to deliver a second, and more comprehensive, report on hypnosis. The Subcommittee consulted several experts on hypnosis from various fields, including the distinguished neurologist Prof. W. Russell Brain, and the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion. After two years of cramming and research, its final report was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), under the title âÂÂMedical use of HypnotismâÂÂ. The terms of reference were: