Dr. David Spiegel is the Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Spiegel is a leading expert in the field of hypnotherapy and developed the app, Reveri, to empower more people with the skill of managing their own brains.
What you'll learn from this episode:
How hypnosis works, misconceptions about hypnosis, and how Dr. Spiegel became interested in hypnosis.
How hypnosis can be leveraged to take control of your life and brain in multiple ways, including helping manage pain, handling stress better, falling asleep more easily, and learning to control impulses to engage in self-destructive behavior and habits.
About two thirds of adults are at least somewhat hypnotizable. There is a spectrum of hypnotizability. You can find out your hypnotizability with Dr. Spiegel’s hypnotizability test.
The difference between meditation and hypnosis, why both are useful, and the surprising results from Max’s experiment undergoing hypnosis with Dr. Spiegel!
The danger of using opioids for treating chronic pain, and how Dr. Spiegel’s studies with metastatic breast cancer patients demonstrate that hypnosis is a powerful tool for managing pain.
And much more!
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Resources from this episode:
What Is Hypnosis and How Might It Work? | PMC
Functional Brain Basis of Hypnotizability | PMC
Brain Oscillations, Hypnosis, and Hypnotizability | PMC
Direct Comparisons between Hypnosis and Meditation: A Mini-Review | PMC
Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
Group Therapy and Hypnosis Reduce Metastatic Breast Carcinoma Pain | PMC
Hypnotic Control of Pain: Historical Perspectives and Future Prospects | PMC
Opioids and Chronic Pain: An Analytic Review of the Clinical Evidence | Frontiers in Pain Research
Hypnotic Approaches for Chronic Pain Management | PMC
The Emerging Field of Psychedelic Psychotherapy | PMC
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