To psychologists, however, this idea has no basis. Some people even spent years and decades in prison for crimes they did not commit based on little or no evidence other than hypnosis-derived memories.Īnother common myth about hypnosis is that it can put someone into a helpless or suggestible trance-like state. False memories elicited using hypnosis played a role in the "Satanic Panic" scare of the 1980s and 1990s in which dozens of people were falsely accused of physically and sexually abusing children. In fact there is a significant danger that any information or memories that may be recalled under hypnosis may be false, created accidentally by the power of suggestion. NEWS: The Science of Santeria: Do a Little Happy Trance
Ian Neath of Purdue University notes, "The majority of studies do not find that hypnosis allows recollection of information that could not otherwise be recalled." In the book "Human Memory: An Introduction to Research, Data, and Theory," Dr. Many people believe that hypnosis is a way to access memories of traumatic events that have somehow been hidden or forgotten. Misunderstood Hypnosis Hypnosis is a widely misunderstood psychological phenomenon, due largely to its depictions in popular culture and film. There's a certain creepy Gothic allure to the idea that a mesmerizing stranger can ask you to stare deeply into his eyes, or ask you to follow a pocketwatch swaying seductively to and fro and listen to him count backwards into a hypnotic trance. In every case, the last thing staff reportedly remember is the thief leaning over and saying: ‘Look into my eyes', before finding the till empty." According to a 2008 BBC News story, "Police in Italy have issued footage of a man who is suspected of hypnotizing supermarket checkout staff to hand over money from their cash registers. Though such claims are unusual, they are not unheard of. All her jewellery and valuables had disappeared, police said."ĪNALYSIS: ‘Shock Therapy' Could Erase Disturbing Memories But the next thing she knew she snapped out of a trance and was sat in her armchair at home. In one incident 66 year-old Sarah Alexeyeva told detectives she was spoken to outside an Aldi supermarket in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. Police in Germany are investigating a spate of crimes involving two Russian women who tell their victims they will read their fortune. A woman in Germany claims she was hypnotized outside of a supermarket, put into a trance, and later woke up at home having been robbed.Ī news story explains, "A pair of hypnotists are being hunted by police after a victim claimed she was put in a trance before being robbed.
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