Anyone Here Undergone Regressive Hypnotherapy?

[HubbardsFate]

Hello Fellow Freaks of the Low Freqs,

Maybe a bit of an odd question, but I'm wondering if anyone here has undergone regressive hypnotherapy. I had a very strange experience once when I was a kid (nothing to do with abuse of any kind), that I can kinda sorta remember, but given that it was over forty years ago, is definitely fuzzy at this point. I'd like to fully recover this memory, and I'm wondering if a session of regressive hypnotherapy might help with that. And no - it wasn't a dream, or something I imagined - my father was there, albeit at the tail end of it, and he knew something very weird was happening too, but he can't help me out beyond the very little bit he witnessed right at the end.

 

[LastJaguar]

Most legitimate studies do not show reliable results.

 

[mikewalker]

Unfortunately, our brains are really really good at (helpfully) synthesizing patterns, so we can hallucinate memories even better than an AI (so far...)

 

[dtripoli]

As unscientific as it is, the unfiltered Kool cigarettes smoking LRHubbard, made millions of dollars using two tin cans and a moisture sensor. Then got a tax free business classified as a "church"

 

[The Golden Boy]

I had a very strange experience once when I was a kid (nothing to do with abuse of any kind), that I can kinda sorta remember, but given that it was over forty years ago, is definitely fuzzy at this point.

I had a traumatic experience around 35 years ago. I COMPLETELY blocked it out of my mind- and I saw a YouTube video with footage from the event (that I didn't remember at all) and it all came back and I remembered what happened and the aftermath- it was completely bonkers that I didn't remember a bit about it... it's not even that I was particularly close to death... but it was scary enough that I just blocked it.

For whatever it's worth- smell has proven to be a very strong memory enhancer... like you can smell something and BE somewhere you were 30 years ago.

 

[HubbardsFate]

For whatever it's worth- smell has proven to be a very strong memory enhancer... like you can smell something and BE somewhere you were 30 years ago.

Agreed.

 

[Krisfield]

I hypnotise really well, gave up smoking with it. It's all in the preparation, plus I really wanted to give it up. I'm not a psychologist but I feel as though hypnosis is good at changing current behaviours with those with a willingness to change. One thing I'd be worried about is the minds ability to "fill in the blanks" on missing information. Maybe there are other ways to resolve worrying memories. I think the next step is to talk to a professional to get some advice.

 

[hbarcat]

Look up "Recovered Memory Syndrome" and "Recovered Memory Therapy".

You will see that it's all a bunch of crackpot pseudoscience.

It also can have serious negative consequences for those who go through the process believing it's legitimate.

This was a big fad in the 90s. Psychologists proposed this idea that traumatic events were commonly suppressed by the brain and these forgotten memories were the cause of many people's fears, anxieties, and depression.

Professional therapists suddenly started telling their clients that they could best help them by hypnotizing them and using other regression therapy techniques to help them "recover" these traumatic memories, so that could better cope with them.

Millions of clients subsequently "remembered" past traumatic events, most commonly prolonged childhood abuse.

As you could imagine, this resulted in accusations being made, confrontations erupting, families being torn apart, and in some instances, criminal prosecutions taking place.

Unfortunately, Recovered Memory Syndrome has been thoroughly debunked by now, but the damage has been done. Thousands of therapists were sued for malpractice, people's reputations have been ruined by accusations of child abuse, and there are still many people who still believe their hypnosis generated memories are real.


For those of you who believe that RM are genuine and that you can recover them with hypnosis, consider any stage act where the hypnotize a bunch of people and have them bark like dogs, cluck like chickens, feel like the room is getting unbearably hot, etc.

Ask yourself if those things are actually true or if the subject just believes them to be true under hypnosis.

 

[BtaylorTheRogue]

Professional therapists suddenly started telling their clients that they could best help them by hypnotizing them and using other regression therapy techniques to help them "recover" these traumatic memories, so that could better cope with them.

Millions of clients subsequently "remembered" past traumatic events, most commonly prolonged childhood abuse.

As you could imagine, this resulted in accusations being made, confrontations erupting, families being torn apart, and in some instances, criminal prosecutions taking place.

there's a great episode of You're Wrong About that covers this phenomenon in great detail, if anyone is interested further.

 

[gln1955]

Trust me, the aliens are very good at erasing the memories of their abductees.

 

[Winslow]

Trust me, the aliens are very good at erasing the memories of their abductees.