Myths About Hypnosis: What's True? with Dr. Jeffrey Zeig
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
There are many misconceptions when it comes to hypnosis. Often the word itself invokes mental images of movie villains forcing innocents to carry out some diabolical plan against their will. But is this level of suggestion scientifically possible? Is it merely a sham? Or can it actually help people? In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are again joined by Dr. Jeffrey Zeig to shine some scientific light on some of the common myths surrounding hypnosis.
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:50.4 | We're here with Dr. Jeffrey Zeig and we're talking about Milton Ericsson and |
| 0:55.3 | hypnosis and in this podcast we're going to talk about some of the myths and |
| 1:00.5 | misconceptions about it. |
| 1:02.6 | So I learned it when I was a second-year medical student |
| 1:07.4 | at Oral Roberts University. |
| 1:09.4 | So for people who don't know, |
| 1:11.0 | Oral Roberts is Evangelical Christian University and the chief of |
| 1:18.8 | psychiatry taught it to us. In fact, put all of us in a trance and I'm like, wow, this is so interesting. And I actually |
| 1:26.4 | took a month elective with Don Schaefer at UC Irvine. When I was a senior medical student and I've just been in love with it. |
| 1:35.0 | But at ORU, there were people who said, |
| 1:39.0 | oh, you shouldn't do that. |
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