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March 24, 2021 81 mins

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.


Research publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tpy76ewAAAAJ&hl=en

https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-spiegel?tab=publications

App- Reveri Health

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reveri/id1547020650

Book- Trance and Treatment

https://www.amazon.com/Trance-Treatment-Clinical-Uses-Hypnosis-dp-1585621900/dp/1585621900/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

 

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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

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