Effectiveness when dealing with what ???
Depression ???
Hypnosis on its' own or integrated with CBT ???
There are great many who within the medical and caring professions who consider that hypnosis is both ineffective and, at times, totally inappropriate as a treatment for depression.
Integrating hypnosis with CBT is an entirely different matter, and one in which there has been some interesting research in Australia:
As far as your comment WRT the cost and efficacy of CBT, I find it hard to agree with your conclusions, given the range and type of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy delivery services now available in many/most Western countries.
The St Vincents Hospital Anxiety Clinic, for example is claiming around a 90% "success" rate for its' online
CRUfAD CBT based program.
IM(very)HO, there are way too many possible variables contained within the quesation to be able to give other than an extremely generalized and therefore potentially misleading answer.
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