I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
This blog was originally posted on January 28, 2014
We often see
characters on television or in the movies use age regression to solve a crime
or resolve a mystery in a protagonist’s life. During the 1970s and 1980s, hypnosis
was used as a crime-solving technique. During this period, there was a widely
held belief that all psychological problems were caused by sexual abuse. Some
people theorized that hypnosis would be a useful device with which to rewind a
person’s memory of a traumatic incident to discover what had happened. Once
this information was revealed, hypnosis could also help the person to vent out
these memories and resolve his or her feelings about and reactions to the
issue. Eventually, experts realized that this technique did not help either the
client (alleged abuse victim) or lawyers to prosecute their cases. Memories are
filled with distortion and amnesia; furthermore, a person under hypnosis is
highly suggestible and becomes very eager to please the hypnotist. A highly
emotional-suggestible client will infer that the hypnotist wants to hear
certain information and will duly provide those details.
In some
situations, age regression is considered a therapeutic technique: to help an
adult remember a license plate after a car crash or to find a personal item
that he or she lost several weeks ago. I also use it as part of an imagery
exercise to remember every cigarette that the person has smoked when I help a
client quit smoking. However, I do not
use age regression to discover (or help my client discover) information or
memories that the person is not ready to address. When a terrible trauma has
occurred, a person knows how to breathe, sleep, eat and eliminate. If a memory
is too traumatic, the mind creates a “scab” over that memory to protect the
individual from further trauma or stress. Just like you wouldn’t pull a scab
off of an abrasion, I do not use hypnosis to rip a similar scab off your mind. Again,
since there is no way to prove the veracity of any memories that a person regains
while under hypnosis, this information would not be allowed in a court of law.
My first
responsibility to my clients is to do no
harm. As a certified hypnotherapist, my role is to help them achieve a vocational
or avocational self-improvement goal (California
Business and Professions Code 2098). However, if a client spontaneously
remembers a traumatic incident, I will use hypnosis to help him or her present
reality more powerful than the past, and refer the person to a licensed
psychologist or other medical professional for additional professional support
in areas that are outside my own scope of expertise in hypnotherapy.
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Sara
R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in Southern
California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in
2005. Sara has been voted the Best Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California,
four years in a row (2019-2022). For more information about Calminsense
Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/
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