Effectiveness of the hypnotherapy against the nocturnal enuresis in children and adolescents

A therapeutic trial in phase III was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of hypnotherapy against nocturnal enuresis in children and adolescents referred with that diagnosis to the Hypnosis Clinic from Santiago de Cuba during the period from January to October, 2006, with a previous evaluation of the cause of the dysfunction (not organic) by pediatricians, urologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and psychologists. The treatment based on hypnosis was as effective to eliminate that disorder as the drug therapy with imipramine, but in the first case adverse effects did not take place.