Help needed with how to get client to remember a specific event

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Permalink Reply by Sean Michael Andrews on January 21, 2009 at 7:36am

Emily:
You probably already know this, but for anyone else who may read this, the judge can throw out any testimony from your client because she was hypnotized to recall this event. I assume her attorney is on board for this? Here's a recent case where this came into play:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/13445095/detail.html

-Sean Michael Andrews
www.WorldsFastestHypnotist.com

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Permalink Reply by Emily on January 21, 2009 at 7:42am

The memory is not going to really be a part of the case. It's a long story but her attorney needs her to remember the color of a document and what she remembers the document as saying. So it's important, but not a part her testimony.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Patterson, CCH on January 21, 2009 at 9:11am

Since the subconcious is the part which had no trouble remembering, Somnambulism would be a must. I would proceed to regress her to the day she held the document, and let her enter a sort of control room of her mind. Have her find the switch which governs color intensity and turn it up. Crank it up to 11, and ask her what color she sees.

Hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Lovold on January 21, 2009 at 2:27pm

Hello Emily , the first thing that I would suggest, would to have your client to try to keep a ledger journal, of the past event in question. This could "light ~ up" the neuro pathways to help this person re - remember the memory event.

~ have fun

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Permalink Reply by Tom Grethen on December 27, 2011 at 12:50am

Hello all,

I have a client who wants to eagerly remember the name of a person of 30 years ago, but he can't, and he wants help with this. Although he never met that person, he wants to remember their name but was only told it once, so long ago! Would it make sense to regress him to the moment he learnt the person's name, and to get into the emotional texture of that moment?

 I got the idea from this thread here: http://www.hypnothoughts.com/group/regressionhypnotherapy/forum/top...

(which stresses the connection between emotion and memory, in order to reframe unhelpful memories, and which also suggests that smnambulism is actually not required).

I will also draw from a "finding lost objects" script and work with NLP submodalities (especially auditory) and possibly even the tv screen / rewind technique (which is how I might regress him first, because I am not a big fan of total-absoprtion regression and because I can still use absorption if it doesn't work).

Does anyone have any other useful techniques for accessing a specific bit of information that seems inaccessible?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on December 27, 2011 at 4:50am

Hey Emily,

I don't like the smell of this request --

The long story sounds like a tall tale.I would refuse to participate with the request...

Emily said:

The memory is not going to really be a part of the case. It's a long story but her attorney needs her to remember the color of a document and what she remembers the document as saying. So it's important, but not a part her testimony.

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on December 27, 2011 at 6:44am

Michael--check the date on the original post. The bad smell might be due to passing the expiration date. :-)

Michael Ellner said:

Hey Emily,

I don't like the smell of this request --

The long story sounds like a tall tale.I would refuse to participate with the request...

Emily said:

The memory is not going to really be a part of the case. It's a long story but her attorney needs her to remember the color of a document and what she remembers the document as saying. So it's important, but not a part her testimony.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Grethen on December 27, 2011 at 7:48am

@michael - james got it right! sorry to warm up an old thread - I was browsing 'memory' threads because I have my own question at the moment,and I added it here, but I have now opened a new thread so this old 2009 story (I trust the court case has been closed?) won't need to be dug up further :)

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Permalink Reply by Roy Hunter on December 27, 2011 at 11:13am

What you are describing is a forensic application of hypnosis.

Before any hypnosis practitioner employs an application of forensic hypnosis, I strongly recommend that you go to Marx Howell's website. He is a leading authority on forensic hypnosis:

http://www.marxhowell.com/

Roy Hunter

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