Patients struggling with pain often seek out hypnosis when they've run out of options. But if you ask David Spiegel, MD, a leading expert in clinical hypnosis, it should be a first — not last — resort ...

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As infants, our emotional expression is our primary mode of communication: Crying when we are distressed or laughing and smiling when we are happy. We tend to become upset (e.g., angry, sad, or ...

There are no swinging pocket watches, and it’s nothing like the ‘sunken place’ scene in Get Out. Hypnosis is ‘a naturally occurring state of highly focused attention’, says David Spiegel, a professor ...

Can hypnosis be used to make someone do something against his or her own will? This question has been the source of great controversy. I served as a consultant about hypnosis to Woody Allen’s film, ...

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