matt damon
habit changehas spoken publicly, multiple times over the years, about using hypnosis to quit smoking.
catherine, princess of wales
pain & birthused hypnobirthing, a hypnosis based technique for pain and anxiety management, through all three of her pregnancies.
dr. david spiegel
stanford university school of medicinea leading contemporary researcher in clinical hypnosis, his work uses neuroimaging to examine how hypnosis alters brain activity and connectivity, with applications in pain, anxiety, and other clinical settings. he has also explored hypnosis as a non-drug approach to pain management that may help reduce reliance on opioids.
milton h. erickson, md
pioneer of modern clinical hypnosiswidely regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern clinical hypnosis. his work shaped many modern approaches to hypnotherapy and psychotherapy, and his methods influenced the hypnotherapy and NLP training lisa completed at UC San Diego.
dr. james esdaile
surgery, 1840s indiareported performing more than 345 major surgeries in 19th-century India using hypnosis as the sole anesthetic, before modern chemical anesthesia became widely available.
brian weiss, md
psychiatrist & authortrained in psychiatry at Yale and later served as chairman of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. he became widely known for incorporating hypnotic regression into his clinical work and for his bestselling book "Many Lives, Many Masters."