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Research on Hypnosis for Experiencers - Kathleen Marden kathleen-marden.com 6 facts
perspectiveKathleen Marden recommends EMDR therapy for individuals experiencing amnesia and anxiety related to UFO abduction experiences.
quoteDr. Benjamin Simon stated: "Hypnosis is a useful procedure in psychiatry to direct concentrated attention on some particular point in the course of the whole therapeutic procedure. In cases like the Hills,’ it can be the key to the locked room, the amnesiac period. Under hypnosis, experiences buried in amnesia may be recalled in a much shorter time than in the normal course of the psychotherapeutic process. Nevertheless, there is little produced under or by hypnosis that is not possible without it. The charisma of hypnosis has tended to foster the belief that hypnosis is the magical and royal road to the TRUTH. In one sense this is so, but it must be understood that hypnosis is a pathway to the truth as it is felt and understood by the patient. The truth is what he believes to be the truth, and this may or may not be consistent with the ultimate nonpersonal truth."
perspectiveKathleen Marden advocates for the use of psychotherapy, specifically Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, for treating post-traumatic stress disorder and amnesia resulting from emotionally traumatic experiences.
perspectiveUFO investigators should not use hypnosis to determine if an individual has been taken to a non-human environment and developed amnesia for the event.
claimWhen a witness suffers from post-traumatic stress related to a UFO encounter and experiences amnesia for part of the event, therapeutic treatment should be conducted by a licensed psychotherapist holding at least a master’s degree in a mental health field.
procedureTo perform a comparative analysis of independent witness statements, a hypnotist should lift amnesia during sessions and then reinstate post-hypnotic amnesia in the witnesses until all hypnosis sessions have concluded.
State of New Hampshire Supreme Court, Hungerford v. Morahan fmsfonline.org 4 facts
claimAmnesia resulting from physical brain injury is generally permanent and irreversible.
claimCertain types of amnesia result in temporary loss of information about personal identity or memory loss of an entire period of time, rather than the selective excision of a specific category of memory over a long period.
claimT. Dittburner and M.A. Persinger found that the intensity of amnesia during hypnosis is positively correlated with the estimated prevalence of sexual abuse and alien abductions.
claimJon Conte testified that the study he co-authored did not use a random sample of the community or a random sample of people in treatment, and he clarified that the study never claimed to prove the existence of amnesia.
Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies culturalsurvival.org Feb 19, 2010 2 facts
accountDuring puberty rites in eastern North America, the Algonquin confined adolescents to a longhouse for two weeks and administered a beverage containing datura to induce intoxication and amnesia, intended to help boys forget childhood and learn manhood.
claimDatura possesses a pharmacological feature that causes amnesia.
Grey Aliens Exposed - Hangar 1 Publishing hangar1publishing.com 1 fact
claimMost abductees experience partial or complete amnesia regarding the abduction event, with memories often emerging later through dreams, flashbacks, or hypnotic regression.
Altered states of consciousness – Knowledge and References taylorandfrancis.com 1 fact
claimDissociators reported experiencing amnesia during hypnosis and perceived suggested imagery as real.
The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Mar 31, 2023 1 fact
claimWeiskrantz's natural experiments regarding awareness deficits, such as amnesia, blindsight, prosopagnosia, and aphasia, manipulate brain activity rather than consciousness as the independent variable.
Intensity of amnesia during hypnosis is positively correlated with ... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
measurementThe study (PMID 8284172) found a moderate positive correlation (0.50) between the participants' estimates of the prevalence of sexual abuse or alien abduction and the amount of amnesia ("lost time") they experienced.