Trance and Treatment provides a systematic approach to understanding and utilizing hypnosis in therapeutic settings. It covers a wide range of applications, including smoking control, eating disorders, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorders. The book is structured to serve both new and experienced practitioners, offering practical techniques and case examples. It introduces the Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) as a crucial tool for assessing hypnotizability and tailoring interventions.
Living Beyond Limits offers a scientifically proven program to enhance the quality of life for individuals with chronic illnesses. Dr. Spiegel's work highlights the importance of support groups in reducing anxiety, depression, and pain, while also improving survival rates. The book provides practical advice on managing illness, communicating with healthcare providers, and facing mortality with courage and resilience.
In this classic work, Csikszentmihalyi investigates 'optimal experience' and reveals that true happiness and satisfaction can be achieved through a state of consciousness called 'flow.' During flow, individuals experience complete concentration on the task, clarity of goals, and immediate feedback. The book demonstrates how this positive state can be controlled and how it can improve the quality of life by unlocking meaning, creativity, and peak performance.
This is a conversation about the science, neurobiology and use cases for clinical hypnosis with the world’s leading researcher and clinician in the field, Dr. David Spiegel.
Dr. Spiegel is the associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, the director of the Stanford Center on Stress and Health, and has published over 480 journal articles, 170 book chapters, and a whopping 13 books on the subject of hypnosis and related topics.
Hypnosis is unfortunately a loaded term, one I admittedly met with skepticism. But as you’ll soon discover, clinical hypnosis, as opposed to ‘stage’ hypnosis, is a genuine and efficacious therapeutic protocol that induces a unique brain state—one that can be leveraged to improve everything from sleep states to high performance. It can be a powerful tool against addiction. And hypnosis has proven efficacious in the alleviation of trauma-related symptoms such as anxiety, chronic pain, and more.
In this episode, Dr. Spiegel explains hypnosis, distinguishes the ‘stage’ variety from the clinical definition, and dispels the many myths associated with the field.
We discuss the many aforementioned efficacious use cases for hypnosis, and a process Dr. Spiegel calls 'tranceformation'.
Finally, we cover helpful tools for self-hypnosis, a simple test to gauge your own receptivity to hypnosis, and many other topics.
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