223: The Power of Hypnosis in Addiction Treatment with David Spiegel
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Using hypnosis on ourselves is more powerful than we think. But is it also effective in treating addiction?
On today’s episode, Duane speaks with David Spiegel, Wilson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Having been at Stanford for over 45 years, David runs the Center on Stress and Health at Stanford and the Center for Integrative Medicine. One of his interests is to find out how people can better control their minds and bodies using hypnosis.
David talks about hypnosis, how that works, how suggestibility works in the brain, how it can help us, and the top-down processing, and how our unconscious can really help us heal. David has used hypnosis with about 7,000 people in his career now, and he has published more than 100 papers of research on hypnosis: what it is, how it works, and what it does.
In this episode, you will hear:
- How hypnosis works in providing mind-body comfort
- How hypnosis can help with addiction, cravings, and pain relief
- Playing the role of a parent to your own body
- About the Reveri app
- Giving pain the right amount of attention, and not more than it needs
- Why get a licensed and trained professional to help you with this
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | My name is Wayne Austerlund, and we are on to another episode. |
| 0:14.0 | We have an incredible guest today, Dr. David Spiegel. |
| 0:17.3 | He is the Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, director of the |
| 0:21.7 | Center on Stress and Health and Medical Director of the Center of Integrative Medicine at |
| 0:26.0 | Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Spiegel has more than 40 years of clinical and |
| 0:31.6 | research experience studying psychoancology, stress and health, pain control, psycho neuroendocrinology, sleep, hypnosis, |
| 0:40.9 | and conducting randomized clinical trials involving psychotherapy for cancer patients. |
| 0:46.2 | He's published 13 books, over 400 scientific journal articles, and hundreds of book chapters |
| 0:52.6 | on hypnosis, psychosocial oncology, stress, physiology, |
| 0:57.0 | trauma, and psychotherapy. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental |
| 1:02.4 | Health and the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Aging, the National Center |
| 1:07.5 | of Complementary Integrative Health, and the John D. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, |
| 1:14.3 | the Dana Foundation for Brain Sciences, |
| 1:16.3 | and he was invited to speak on hypnosis at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018. |
| 1:22.0 | So today, Dr. David Spiegel and I are going to talk about hypnosis |
| 1:26.3 | and how hypnosis can help you with a |
| 1:32.8 | top-down processing approach, really accessing your unconscious mind and changing how you think |
| 1:43.1 | and experience the world around you. We're going to talk a little bit about |
| 1:46.5 | the brain science. We're going to talk about his experience with hypnosis and how this became a |
| 1:51.5 | passion for him to bring it to others to really help people live their best life. So I think |
| 1:57.5 | you're really going to like it. Dr. Spiegel really takes all of his experience and |
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