Hypnotic regression

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The hypnotic regression is an application of hypnosis where the subject an earlier age or a previous life lived through again and passes through the perceived in the corresponding age feelings. This makes it a method for analyzing and representing childhood experiences .

Hypnotic procedure

Here the test person is placed in a medium to deep trance . In these stages, the therapist (or the patient) should be able to access childhood memories that are beyond the consciousness of the subject. The ideas ("memories") found then can be used for further use in therapy .

The therapist can assign different truth criteria to this “remembering” in trance. They range from a semi-conscious staging of events, some of which have not actually been experienced, to the actualization of allegedly actual childhood experiences with typical age-related characteristics. These can be earlier reflexes ( grasping , sucking , Babinski reflex ) as well as the age-typical forms of thinking and object relationships as well as pulse frequency or eye coordination.

This method is used in hypnotherapy or trauma therapy .

Ask about the truth of the memory

When a therapist leads a client into a regression, the question of truthfulness is initially not up for discussion. The therapist's primary task is to focus the rising images and feelings and to support the client. There is always the risk of developing a false memory .

Hypnotic regression was used very widely in the United States in the 1990s . Michael Yapko describes in his book some cases in which, through suggestive questions and careless procedures by the therapists, images of sexual abuse were suggested to the client and accepted as fact far too quickly. The question of whether the images seen in the regression also correspond to the truth was often not asked. Before clients are encouraged to confront their family members with serious allegations, the truth question must be asked. If relatives are accused of sexual abuse due to a misdiagnosis , the family relationship is extremely stressed and in many cases even completely destroyed. The client's neurosis is then reinforced by the therapist.

application areas

In the case of hypnotic regression, memories arise which, because of their content, arouse doubts about the method. Recalling memories of an alleged alien abduction are also used. In reincarnation therapy, hypnotic regression is used to call up images and impressions of alleged previous reincarnations or future lives. It is indeterminate where illusion and reality lie in these experiences brought about by hypnosis and suggestion. There is not a single case known in which previously unknown information was transmitted through hypnotic regression. Not a single repatriation carried out to date has deciphered an unknown language of antiquity or gave any indication of a sunken city.

literature

  • Joachim Bauer: The body's memory. How relationships and lifestyles control our genes. Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24179-4 .
  • Elizabeth Loftus : The Reality of Repressed Memories. In: American Psychologist . 48, 1993, pp. 518-537.
  • Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham: The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. St. Martin's Press, New York 1994, ISBN 0-312-11454-0 .
  • Michael R. Nash: Memory Distortion and Sexual Trauma: The Problem of False Negatives and False Positives. In: International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 42, 1994, pp. 346-362.
  • Nicholas P. Spanos, Cheryl A. Burgess, Melissa Faith Burgess: Past-life Identity, UFO Abductions, and Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Social Construction of Memories. In: The International Journal fo Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. XLII (4), 1994, pp. 433-446.
  • Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham: The Therapeutic Memory: The Myth of Denial in Sexual Abuse Charges. Verlag Klein, 1995, ISBN 3-89521-028-5 .
  • Stephen Critchlow: False Memory Syndrome: Balancing the Evidence For and Against. In: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , 15 (2), 1998, pp. 64-67.
  • Hans Crombag, Harald Merkelbach: You don't forget abuse. Remembering and suppressing - misdiagnoses and wrong judgments. Verlag Gesundheit, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-333-01003-8 .
  • Daniel L. Schacter : We are memories. Memory and personality. Rowohlt, 1999, ISBN 3-498-06324-3 .
  • Stephanie Dallam: Crisis or Creation ?: A Systematic Examination of 'False Memory Syndrome'. In: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse , 9, (3/4), 2000, pp. 9-36.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ False Memory: The Problem with Remembering . Bayerischer Rundfunk , November 30, 2016; accessed on July 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Michael D. Yapko: Misdiagnosis : Sexual Abuse. Droemer Knaur, 1996, ISBN 3-426-84089-8 .
  3. ↑ Helmut Zander: History of the transmigration of souls in Europe: Alternative religious traditions from antiquity to today. 1st edition. 1999, ISBN 3-534-14601-8 , p. 572 f.