Can Regression Hypnotherapy Be Harmful?
In my 35 years of private practice, I have not had one single patient who was not completely satisfied with the therapeutic value they received from their regression hypnotherapy process. It is important to mention, however, that there were a number of recorded cases during the mid-1990’s where far less experienced practitioners were found to have corrupted the patient’s recall process which precipitated the “False Memory” controversy that prevailed during that time period. It takes many years of experience to learn how to work with the subconscious mind and to understand that it does not necessarily record or retrieve memories in the same rational way that the conscious mind does. An explanation as to why this is true, however, is well beyond the scope of this website. What is important to the therapeutic process falls into two realms. The first is whether or not the material a patient uncovers about a past event is accompanied by a discharge of the negative, emotional energy that had
