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...lawsuit -- which takes only one person convincing one lawyer to go forward -- the media are under some obligation to check out the accusation. In this case, a modest amount of reporting would have shown the charges to be suspect. Repressed memory is controversial to begin with, and the hypnotist who jogged Cook's memory is in the graphic-arts business and is not a licensed psychologist. The evidence was flimsy. There was no telltale inscription in a book Bernardin was supposed to have given him, and Cook's photo of the two of them was a group graduation photo...
...researchers argue that alien abductions may be disguised memories of sexual abuse. Others assert that abduction memories may also be unwittingly planted by over-zealous therapists. "I believe these victims believe it," says Ray Hyman, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. "People are trying to please the hypnotist. The therapist and patient collaborate with each other to produce the story." Hypnosis can be extremely effective in eliciting fantasies that therapists can use in treating patients. The technique, however, can also create false memories. Says Ray William London, president of the American Boards of Clinical Hypnosis...
...Guyana, and to some older religious Americana, like Elmer Gantry, darkened with touches of the Road Warrior. The tragedy in Texas was self-contained, and seemed a familiar story of what happens when a group sealed away in paranoia succumbs to the influence of a sort of preacherly hypnotist...
Aron seizes this opportunity to offer us a brief commentary on the nature of illusion and self-delusion. As Ms. Tokatok says to Mindo the Hypnotist (Scott Cole): "It would be wonderful to live in...a world of dreams...
Imagine that. Instead of going to Princeton Review or Kaplan to raise your LSAT scores, you go to your local hypnotist instead. Sounds revolutionary enough...