Two Cases Reporting Past-life Identity during Hypnosis.
- Author:
Hee Gwan PARK
1
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Deok-Jeong Army Hospital, Yang Ju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Hypnosis;
Hypnotizability;
Source amnesia;
Age regression;
Past-life
- MeSH:
Humans;
Hypnosis*
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
1997;36(3):578-587
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
During hypnosis patients sometimes fantasize entire complex scenarios and later define these experiences as memories of actual events rather than as imaginings. This article examines 2 cases reporting past-life identity during hypnotic trance state. In each case, elicitation of the past-life events is associated with social constructions, hypnotic procedures and structured interviews which provide demands for the requisite experiences, and which then legitimate the experiences as past-life identities. These 2 cases show their own idiopathic psychodynamics symbolically through past-life regression during hypnosis. This article supports the hypothesis that recall is reconstructive and organized in terms of current expectations and beliefs.
