title: [Treatment of onychophagia].
abstract: Personal experience in the hypnotic management of nailbiting is presented. Confidence in this type of treatment is rested on the results observed in a set of 32 cases, 28 of which were fully and definitively resolved. An exhaustive account is given of the subject and the method applied. Stress is laid on its technical and therapeutic advantages.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008297:Male; D009259:Nail Biting / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy
vernacular_title: Trattamento della onicofagia.