Posted by Estella on August 20, 2006, at 1:19:40
In reply to Re: Confused and update on hypnotist » Estella, posted by Daisym on August 20, 2006, at 0:54:40
> I think her main point keeps getting lost in the discussion.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that...
> She isn't saying she doesn't remember being sexually abused.I know.
> She is clear that she was and it was her dad who abused her.
Yup.
> She is also clear that she loved her father and that there are conflicting feelings within her.
Yeah. That is understandable.
> What she has said over and over is that she has a "tip of her tongue" feeling that is driving her crazy and she would like to access whatever it is that pricks at her just below the surface.
Right. That is what I thought.
> It might be an event with her dad she forgot...it might be something else. But she wants to get a clearer picture of her past.
Right. And what I'm questioning is the ability of hypnosis to facilitate those kinds of 'memories'.
> I've been studying neurobiology this year and there are PET scans that show that traumatic memory is NOT stored the way other memories are stored.Right. How are they 'stored' differently?
> All that said, I completely understand the need to understand your own history and figure out how to have a coherent narrative of what happened to you. The "truth" here isn't for a court case or a confrontation (since he's dead). It is for her inner peace.
There aren't alternative ways of finding coherent narrative and inner peace?
I don't understand how the question becomes
'what happened?'
over
'what am i afraid of?'
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