hypnosis is a tool which allows you to access parts of the mind (eg. memory). It can be used to improve memory recall.
As a scientific tool to PROVE memory, there are known difficulties with hypnosis. It has been demonstrated that memories may be implanted with hypnosis. This can be subtle. The way the questions are asked of a hypnotic subject can influence the subject's responses and memories. There is, in fact, a whole branch of hypnosis which does just this for therapeutic ends (Ericksonian hypnosis).
So - hypnosis can help you remember. It cannot be used to prove anything definitively at this stage.
2006-07-20 13:59:33
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answered by Orinoco 7
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Hypnosis tends to increase the patient's ability to confabulate and then subsequently believe those 'recovered memories' as real. The brain cannot tell a false memory from a memory of an event that actually happened.
I would say that hypnotism doesn't help in recovery of repressed memories, but rather tends to create them especially with a sympathetic therapist (in other words, the therapist believes in alien abductions or that everyone with depression was molested as a child, etc.)
2006-07-20 21:39:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Here is your question translated into Greek, which is how it read to me:
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2006-07-20 20:46:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Huh?
2006-07-20 20:44:22
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answered by Aki 4
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