Since no one really knows exactly how the mind works in retaining or repressing memories.
This was a really hard article to write because I know a lot of abuse victims seek out hypnosis as part of trying to fill in some gaps, I didn't want to demean or belittle their experience or memories...but still raise the concern of perhaps some of those memories being the result of someone even hinting at the abuse and the victim's mind fashioning very vivid "memories" around that suggestion...instead of just coaxing what is actually there to come out.
You really need to have a hypnotherapist who knows what they're doing.
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That's what I was trying to get at.
Since no one really knows exactly how the mind works in retaining or repressing memories.
This was a really hard article to write because I know a lot of abuse victims seek out hypnosis as part of trying to fill in some gaps, I didn't want to demean or belittle their experience or memories...but still raise the concern of perhaps some of those memories being the result of someone even hinting at the abuse and the victim's mind fashioning very vivid "memories" around that suggestion...instead of just coaxing what is actually there to come out.
You really need to have a hypnotherapist who knows what they're doing.
Thank you for your comment.
April 22, 2011 - 5:22amThis Comment
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