David Spiegel- The powerful tool of self hypnosis
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This week we have Dr. David Spiegel who is the Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. David is a world re-noun psychiatrist with over 40 years of clinical and research experience so we are so lucky to have this time with him.
The main focus of this episode was to dive into hypnosis because David is a world leader in this domain and I feel like there is a big misconception around what exactly hypnosis is and what its about. So hopefully its more clear after listening to this episode. And I’m a big believer in specifically self-hypnosis…which is a tool that you can access at any time.. any place… to create profound changes in your state of being. You can specifically and consciously target habits you want to change, you can modulate pain in your body…there are so many ways to utilize this powerful tool that we discuss.
I hope that you guys enjoy this conversation as much as I did!
Research publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tpy76ewAAAAJ&hl=en
https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-spiegel?tab=publications
App- Reveri Health
Book- Trance and Treatment
4:20 Philosophy major before med school. “What’s fundamental to the way we think?”
6:20 Lessons from the Dalai Lama
10:00 Emotions- child vs adult
13:00 Hypnosis- western equivalent to mindfulness in many ways
14:40 Difference between mindfulness and hypnosis
15:50 fMRI results with hypnosis and mindfulness
20:00 3 stages of hypnosis
23:35 Reveri hypnosis app
29:00 Self-hypnosis
32:15 Modulate pain with hypnosis
38:00 Athletes control domain of awareness
42:30 Stanford women’s swim team
45:30 Inverse functionality in the brain
47:50 Hypnosis to quit smoking and addiction
52:00 Habit change and hypnosis
59:45 Unconscious/subconscious
1:02:00 Child mind
1:05:40 L frontal theta dominant in hypnosis
1:10:30 ACL tear rehab
1:11:24 PTSD/trauma treatment
1:15:00 Finding a hypnosis expert
1:18:25 Learning more about hypnosis
David Spiegel
Psychiatrist, author, founder
Dr. David Spiegel is Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has been a member of the academic faculty since 1975, and was Chair of the Stanford University Faculty Senate from 2010-2011. Dr. Spiegel has more than 40 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control, psychoneuroendocrinology, sleep, hypnosis, and conducting randomized clinical trials involving psychotherapy for cancer patients. He has published thirteen books, 404 scientific journal articles, and 170 book chapters on hypnosis, psychosocial oncology, stress physiology, trauma, and psychotherapy. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, the Dana Foundation for Brain Sciences, and the Nathan S. Cummings Foundation. He was a member of the work groups on stressor and trauma-related disorders for the DSM-IV and DSM-5 editions of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. He is Past President of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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