Can hypnosis aid recall?

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There is something I need to remember, a name from my past. Could a hypnotherapist help me to remember? Does anyone have any experience of hypnosis or regressive therapy?

― not telling, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, I don't know very much about this subject, but I am sure that this is exactly the kind of thing that hypnosis can help with. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

posted twice as a pithy anawer to your own question?

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Posted twice because I realised at the last minute that I had missed out a question mark but had already pressed submit then tried pressing the stop button and messed it up.
I like that I have been excelsiored for it, proof that I am only funny unintentionally and when no-one knows who I am.

I feel any hynotherapist might struggle with my specific request, which would be along the lines of 'Just give me his name I don't want to remember any of the other shit' :-(

― still not telling, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it is that selective, but you may be able to opt out of knowing all of the info that is brought up. this may be down to the discretion of the therapist though.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

People are throne to come up with false/imagined "memories" while in hypnosis (it *is* a suggestive state), so anything "recalled" during hypnosis is highly unreliable. Also, hypnotherapists can unwillingly lead their patients to come up with paticular types of false memories, which can have pretty serious consequences, as witnessed in the cases where people have, under hypnosis, suddenly "remembered" that they were abused as a child.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hypnosis is not a straight route to your subconscious (if there even is such a thing), and your subconscious doesn't "store" anything objectively anyway.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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