Introduction

In this clip (1 of 9), Dr. David Shurtleff, Deputy Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, introduces the speaker. Dr. David Spiegel opens with an overview of his lecture, including the usefulness of hypnosis as a model for brain-body interactions and how they work.
This clip is part of the lecture “Tranceformation: Hypnosis in Brain and Body,” by David Spiegel, M.D., Willson Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
This lecture, given at the NIH in March 2015 as part of NCCIH’s Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series, is included in NCCIH’s Online Continuing Education Series. Free CME/CEU credit is available to health professionals (see nccih.nih.gov/t....