What are the psychological dangers associated with hypnosis?
If we repress a memory because of a childhood or life trauma, it’s because there’s a good reason for it to be repressed. Our brain is a marvellous tool and part of our subconscious mind’s job is to protect us and keep us safe. So if something happens to a child or even an adult that becomes a repressed memory, it’s being repressed for a good reason, and digging it up and reliving it or even remembering it might not be in that person’s best interest. The other danger if you will, and it’s not really a danger, is that sometimes when we recover memories the memories we recover when in hypnosis aren’t real. They can seem very, very real, and that’s one of the reasons hypnosis is very rarely used in court in trials because what a person remembers happening under hypnosis may or may not be real and unless there’s some way to cooberate that memory with outside proof we can’t prove it’s real. And so a person could “remember” something that never happened, and it could be extremely tramatic, an
