Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2022-10-17
Books mentioned on Dr. David Spiegel On Mind-Body 'Tranceformation' Through Hypnosis
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. David Spiegel recommended Trance And Treatment by Herbert Spiegel and others, and discussed Personality and hypnosis by Josephine (Rohrs) Hilgard.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Personality and hypnosis
Personality and hypnosis is a scientific work by Josephine Rohrs Hilgard that investigates the early life histories of former Stanford students to understand the psychological and developmental correlates of hypnotizability.
Discussed“but um there's also evidence um Josephine Hilgard published a book called personality hypnosis where she looked at the early life histories of former Stanford students of Stanford students and found that higher hypnotizability was associated with one positive and one negative thing imaginative involvements”
Where to get it
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Trance And Treatment
Trance And Treatment by Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel is a foundational text on the clinical applications and psychological mechanisms of hypnosis.
Recommended“there are things to read as well about hypnosis there's our book trance and treatment but there are others too”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Living Beyond Limits
“I'll tell you a story when I I published a book some years ago living beyond limits that had talked about treating cancer patients and some about hypnosis”
Plugged Trance And Treatment
“and the one other thing I'd mention is the book I wrote with my father was called trans and treatment clinical users of hypnosis”