Harvey called me hoping that he could use hypnosis to help him with his divorce. He thought his wife had been cheating on him. In 2011 he thought that she had slipped him drugs at a party, and while he was unconscious had been cheating on him. So what does that have to do with hypnosis? Harvey was hoping that hypnosis could help him retrieve a memory of being drugged by his wife. He wanted to use that memory to gain advantage in his divorce. I suggested he ask his lawyer about using hypnosis in this way. Harvey had asked her, but she really didn't know enough to have an opinion. Harvey's story is a good example the kind of unreasonable expectations that some people have about what hypnosis can do, and particularly its value in a legal proceeding. I explained to Harvey that memories retrieved in hypnosis are not admissible as evidence in a legal proceeding. That is because it's too easy to implant a false memory in someone who's in hypnosis. For example, if the hypnotherapist asked the hypnotized person, "What kind of shoes were you wearing?" It's likely the hypnotized person would come up with an answer. [...]The post Using Hypnosis for a Divorce appeared first on trance-formations.com.
