Hypno-programming & RFK Assassination

[yeti2213]

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I saw the snippet below in a news story
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Sirhan Sirhan has long claimed that he cannot remember the actual assassination. Harvard Medical School hypno-programming expert Daniel Brown recently worked with Sirhan, claiming to successfully help him remember the assassination for the first time. Brown says Sirhan claims that due to "mind control," Sirhan believed he was at a gun range shooting at circular targets"
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and of course, visited the web page for Daniel Brown (http://www.ecowraps.info/daniel-brown.html). And I'm pretty confused. A PhD from the University Of Chicago school of "Religion & Psychological Studies" is a Clinical PhD? Otherwise how does he have a license to provide psychotherapy? Also, has there been research on hynpoanalysis/hypnotherapy... if so what does it show?

 

[AcronymAllergy]

My guess is that either it counts as a degree in clinical psychology or, at the time of his licensure, he was able to convince the state board that between his graduate training, internship, post-doc, and whatever other training/supervised practice he'd completed, he should be eligible.

 

[Jegg]

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Sirhan Sirhan has long claimed that he cannot remember the actual assassination. Harvard Medical School hypno-programming expert Daniel Brown recently worked with Sirhan, claiming to successfully help him remember the assassination for the first time. Brown says Sirhan claims that due to "mind control," Sirhan believed he was at a gun range shooting at circular targets"
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Kiss did that first...

 

[erg923]

I saw the snippet below in a news story
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Sirhan Sirhan has long claimed that he cannot remember the actual assassination. Harvard Medical School hypno-programming expert Daniel Brown recently worked with Sirhan, claiming to successfully help him remember the assassination for the first time. Brown says Sirhan claims that due to "mind control," Sirhan believed he was at a gun range shooting at circular targets"
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and of course, visited the web page for Daniel Brown (http://www.ecowraps.info/daniel-brown.html). And I'm pretty confused. A PhD from the University Of Chicago school of "Religion & Psychological Studies" is a Clinical PhD? Otherwise how does he have a license to provide psychotherapy? Also, has there been research on hynpoanalysis/hypnotherapy... if so what does it show?

Um, Yea...

I'll vote for occam's razor on this one. The simplest explanation for someone shooting and killing someone is that they wanted to shoot and kill that person.

 

[Psychadelic2012]

Otherwise how does he have a license to provide psychotherapy?

One does not need a license to perform hypnosis legally. It is not a protected practice.

Also, has there been research on hynpoanalysis/hypnotherapy... if so what does it show?

Yes. It shows it is horrendously awful at retrieving memories. Any good hypnotist will not do it.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Junk Science.

Pure and simple.

 

[nitemagi]

Junk Science.

Pure and simple.

Oversimplification. Good data on "plasticity" of memory (and thus unreliability), including in the forensics literature. True that hypnosis isn't a protected field, relatively unregulated (depends on the state, actually). But there are professional organizations dedicated to training licensed healthcare professionals in proper and ethical use of hypnosis, as well as the production of quality research in the area.

Check out the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

I agree with T4C in that any good hypnotist won't rely on the validity of recalled memories (especially "repressed" memories), and there's hosts of data on the iatrogenic issues with suggestion and repressed memory (DID, childhood sexual abuse). That doesn't necessarily negate hypnosis as a useful therapeutic tool, even the use of age regression in certain circumstances. The data shows that hypnosis/trance increases recall of both factually correct and incorrect events. If/when I use age regression, I recognize the risk of suggestion even in the form questions are asked (see "Clean Language" by David Grove), and try to work with the emotional side of whatever comes up, without getting into whether a memory is factually correct. I may even tell them that memories are notoriously unreliable, but that doesn't pre-empt processing any memories or emotions that Do come up without validating them as historically accurate. "What you feel is real, even if the memory might not be, so let's deal with your feelings."

A book I've cited before on issues of regression -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932594396