Hypnotic age regression professional#
Weiss’s initial skepticism renders him some professional credibility he came to believe in reincarnation and the efficacy of past life regressions not due to some whacky previous religious beliefs, but rather because evidence from his medical practice led him to it.Īlthough the medical establishment does not favor these procedures, there is a high demand for them in the general population. According to his testimonies, as he encountered patients that allegedly gave precise details of their past lives, Dr.
Weiss’s therapeutic approach has gained notoriety, because at first, he did not believe in reincarnation. By going back to those experiences through hypnosis, the patient confronts his/her fears, and ultimately, becomes desensitized to his/her original fears. Weiss believes, go back to experiences from previous lives ( 2). Weiss has recommended hypnosis for patients, in order to overcome phobias. Perhaps the most prominent promoter of this therapeutic approach is psychiatrist Dr. However, some high profile practitioners in the field have upheld past life regression therapy, and actually incorporate it in their medical practice as a therapeutic technique. Mainstream psychiatry has traditionally rejected this assumption. Based on this assumption, practitioners believe that various mental disorders can be treated by addressing the events that an individual went through before he or she was born in this life. Past life regression therapy, therefore, assumes the reality of reincarnation. This regression could be to periods of their infancy, but also to periods of their gestational development, or periods before they were born with their current body, but their soul may have been embodied in another body, i.e., past lives. Thus, through hypnosis, practitioners take the patients back in time (regression) ( 1). According to past life regression therapists, many mental health issues that patients experience may have their origins in traumatic experiences of past lives. Past life regression is a technique that attempts to use hypnosis in order to recover memories from previous lives. This is a violation of the principle of non-malfeasance, which is surely the most important principle in medical ethics.
Second, past life regression therapy has the great risk of implanting false memories in patients, and thus, causing significant harm. If patients are not fully informed about these problems, they cannot provide an informed consent, and hence, the principle of autonomy is violated. Past life regression is based on the reincarnation hypothesis, but this hypothesis is not supported by evidence, and in fact, it faces some insurmountable conceptual problems. In this article, I argue that past life regression therapy is unethical for two basic reasons. Although it is not supported by psychiatric associations, few medical associations have actually condemned it as unethical. Anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and gender dysphoria have all been treated using life regression therapy by some doctors on the assumption that they reflect problems in past lives. Past life regression therapy is used by some physicians in cases with some mental diseases.
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