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  Self-Hypnosis for Childhood Abdominal Pain  
    Functional abdominal pain is recurrent abdominal pain without an identifiable physical cause.  Four out of five chil-dren resolved this disorder within three weeks after a single session of instruction in self-hypnosis.  The author, re-porting in the journal Clinical Pediatrics (August, 2001).  The author commented on the potential impact of wide-spread application of such hypnotherapy may be large, because abdominal pain is thought to be the most common recurrent physical symptom attributable to psychological factors among children and adolescents.