William S. Kroger | |
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| Born | William Saul Kroger April 14, 1906 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 4, 1995 (aged 89) |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
| Education | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (MD) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Years active | 1960–1986 |
| Known for | Pioneering the use of hypnosis in medicine |
| Father | Charles Mendel Kroger |
William Saul Kroger (April 14, 1906 – December 4, 1995[1]) was an American physician who pioneered the use of hypnosis in medicine and was co-founder and founder of medical societies and academies dedicated to furthering psychosomatic medicine and medical hypnosis.
Though he was trained as a gynecologist/obstetrician, his contributions to the medical field cut across disciplines and specialties in the medical field, including psychiatry, psychosomatic illness and treatment, endocrinology, neurobiology and bioengineering as well as his own specialty of gynecology and obstetrics.
He is the author of the medical textbook Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, considered to be a classic instructional aid in the use of hypnosis in medical settings, as well as co-authoring Psychosomatic Gynecology, Including Problems of Obstetrical Care and Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning, among others.