Chapter 12 Chapter IX Treatment Methods

John Mack was a psychiatrist at Harvard University whom we had known for many years. He asked me a long time ago if there were any UFO-related incidents. I replied, not much.But from a psychiatric point of view there are some.He conducted research, interviewed the abductees, and changed his views as a result.It now appears that he accepted the abductee's account as plausible.How is this going? "It didn't occur to me at the time. I didn't have any basis for accepting these alien abduction stories. But the emotional force of the experiences made them compelling," he said in his book Abduction. In , Mike explicitly makes the very dire claim that the "power or intensity" with which something is felt guides people in judging its truthfulness.

I personally recognize the power of this emotion.But don't our dreams always have a powerful emotional component?Don't we sometimes wake up in utter terror?Didn't Mike, who had written a book about nightmares himself, know the emotional power of hallucinations?Some of Mack's patients have said that they have had fantasies since childhood.And do hypnotists and psychotherapists dutifully learn about hallucinations and sensory dysfunction when they treat "abductees"?If they believed these eyewitnesses, why not the equally convincing reports of encounters with gods, devils, saints, angels, and spirits?And those who say they have an irresistible voice of command inside them?Are stories that make people feel strong all true?

A scientist I know said, "Our world would be a little more sane if the aliens detained all the people they abducted." But her conclusions were harsh and uncomfortable, and it's not a matter of sanity, but something else.According to Canadian psychologist Nicola Spanos and colleagues, those who reported being abducted by UFOs showed no obvious pathological symptoms.In general, though, people who tend to believe in the mystical, especially those who believe in aliens, and who use extraterrestrial hypotheses to explain psychic and fantasy experiences, are more likely to have UFO experiences.Among those who believe in UFOs, fantasies are especially likely to have this experience.Moreover, when they are in certain sensory environments, the experience is more likely to occur and is more likely to be described as real rather than imaginary... (for example, experiences that occur at night and during sleep the experience that arises from it).

The more critical mind sees it as a hallucination or dream, the more gullible mind sees it as an incomprehensible but profound objective reality. Some descriptions of alien abductions may have been vague memories of rape or childhood sexual abuse by a father, stepfather, uncle, or mother's boyfriend.They certainly feel more comfortable seeing their abuser as an alien rather than someone they trust and love.But therapists who accept the alien abduction stories as real deny them, saying they would know if their patients had been sexually abused.According to polls, as many as one in four women and one in six men in the United States were sexually abused as children (although these statistics may be high).It would be very surprising if there were a significant number of patients presenting to alien therapists who had not experienced such abuse, at a rate not even higher than the rate of sexual abuse experienced by the general public.

Both sexual abuse therapists and alien abduction therapists spend months, sometimes years, encouraging their clients to remember the experience of abuse.Their methods are similar, and their goal is the same — to restore painful memories, often from long ago.In both cases, therapists agree that memory function is suppressed to some degree in both traumatized and frightened patients.What I find striking is that therapists for alien abduction cases rarely see cases of sexual abuse, nor do victims of sexual abuse seek treatment from such specialists. Victims of sexual abuse or incest are understandably sensitive to anything that might diminish or deny their experience.They'll be mad about it -- and they have a right to it.In the United States, at least 1 in 10 women are raped, and almost 2/3 of them are raped before the age of 18.A recent survey showed that 1 in 6 rape victims reported to the police were under the age of 12 (the smallest reported rape of this type), and 1 in 5 of these girls were raped by their fathers.They were seduced.I want to make one point clear: there are many real cases where parents or those who act as parents are brutal sexual abusers.In some cases strong evidence was revealed, such as photographs, diaries, gonorrhea or chlamydia in children.Child abuse is considered a major cause of social problems, with one survey showing that 85 percent of those imprisoned for violent crimes were abused as children.Two-thirds of unwed teenage mothers were raped or sexually abused as children or adolescence.Rape victims are 10 times more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs than other women.This problem does exist, and it urgently needs to be resolved.And in most cases, the undeniable tragedies of child sexual abuse live on in adulthood.They have no hidden memories to recover.

We have better reporting today than in the past, and there seems to be a dramatic increase in the number of child abuse cases reported each year by hospitals and law enforcement agencies, increasing tenfold to 1.7 million cases in the United States between 1967 and 1985.Alcohol and other drugs, as well as financial stress, are thought to be why adults today are more likely to abuse children than they were in the past.The growing publicity of child abuse cases has reminded adults of their past abuse. A century ago, Sigmund Freud conceptualized repression as a response mechanism for maintaining mental health, the forgetting of events in order to escape intense psychological pain.It was especially likely to occur in patients diagnosed with "hysteria," which included symptoms of hallucinations and paralysis.At first Freud believed that behind every case of hysteria was a repressed episode of childhood sexual abuse.Ultimately, Freud changed his explanation of the causes of hysterical symptoms caused by childhood sexual abuse hallucinations—not all hallucinations were unpleasant.He thinks it's a transfer of guilt from parent to child.The debate in this area is still very heated. (The reasons for Freud’s inner changes are still debated today—from the explanation for the outrage he caused among middle-aged Viennese nobles to his admission that he listened carefully to what the hysterics had to say.)

It is highly doubtful that memories come up suddenly (especially with the help of psychologists and hypnotists) and that there are instances of ghostly or dreamlike nature in the first "reminiscences".There are many cases of claims of sexual abuse that appear to be fabricated.Emory University psychologist Ulrike Neisser said: There are indeed instances of children being abused, as well as repressed memories.But it's not uncommon for such instances to also be filled with false memories and gibberish.Memory errors are common, not uncommon.This happens all the time.Even in the case of the absolute self-confidence of the memory subject, even if there is a strong flash in the memory that seems impossible to forget, it is an inner picture with metaphors.This is more likely to happen in the presence of vivid cues, where the memory is shaped or modified in accordance with the doctor's strong instructions to the patient during the course of therapy.And once the memory is transformed in this way, it will be very difficult to change it.

These general principles do not help us determine which individual events and which statements are true.But in general, from the knowledge of a large number of such cases, it is obvious where to place our bets.Memory lapses and the rewiring of past events in recollection is a human nature that exists everywhere and at any time. Survivors of the Nazi death camps provide the clearest example of how even the most heinous abuses can live on in human memory.In fact, for many Holocaust survivors, the biggest problem is maintaining a certain emotional distance between oneself and the death camps, that is, forgetting.But suppose they were forced to live in Nazi Germany in a world of indescribable evil—let’s assume a strong “post-Hitler” state whose ideology hadn’t changed at all except anti-Semitism—then Imagine the psychological stress of those who survived the Holocaust.They might be able to forget then, because the memory would make their current life unbearable.If there is repression of terrible memories and subsequent recollection, two conditions may be required: (1) that the abuse actually occurred and (2) that the victim is required to pretend that nothing happened for a long period of time.

Richard Offhi, a social psychologist at the University of California, explains: When patients are asked how memories are evoked, they say that fragments of images, concepts, feelings, and perceptions are brought together into coherent stories.When this so-called memory work lasts for several months, the feeling becomes a blurred image, the image becomes a figure, and the figure becomes a familiar person; a dull pain in a certain part of the body is turned into a childhood abuse... …the initial bodily sensations, sometimes amplified by hypnosis, are called "body memories."Human muscles preserve memories in ways that are incomprehensible.If these methods are not convincing, the healer may resort to stronger treatment methods.Some patients were put into survivor groups, where they were pressured by their peers to demonstrate their political sympathy by joining a clique.

In a cautious statement issued in 1993, the American Psychiatric Association acknowledged that some people forget childhood abuse as a way of coping, but warned: It is currently unknown how to accurately distinguish between memories based on real events and memories from other sources. …Repeated questioning may lead some people to speak of "memories" of things that never happened.It is not known what proportion of adults who reported having memories of being sexually abused actually experienced abuse. …Psychiatrists' preconceived beliefs about the presence of sexual abuse, or other factors—whether or not the cause of a patient's problems—may interfere with diagnosis and treatment.

On the one hand, there is the unsympathetic injustice of callously ignoring allegations of lurid sexual abuse.On the other hand, tampering with people's memories, fabricating false stories of childhood sexual abuse, destroying intact families, and even sending innocent parents to jail are equally merciless injustices.Both situations should be approached with skepticism.And choosing a path between these two extremes is a very tricky thing. In an early edition of the influential book "Courage to Heal: A Guide for Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse" (Perelinnial Library, 1988) by Alan Bass and Laura Davis, therapists were asked An instructive piece of advice: Believe in survivors.You have to believe that your patient has been sexually abused, even if she herself doubts it. …Your patient needs your conviction that she has been abused.Dealing with a patient who has doubts is a lot like dealing with someone who believes suicide is the best way out.If the patient is not sure whether she has been abused, but only thinks it is possible, then treat her as if she was.Of the hundreds of women we've talked to, and hundreds more we've heard about, to date, not a single woman suspected she had been abused, but had been investigated and determined not to be. But Kenneth F. Lanning, special inspector of the Behavioral Sciences Training and Research Division of the FBI Research Institute in Candito, Virginia, and one of the leading experts on child sexual harm: "Are we now blindly accepting all statements about child sexual abuse, no matter how absurd or impossible, in order to compensate for centuries of flat-out denial on the subject?" According to the Washington Post, California's Says one therapist, "I don't care if it's real or not, what actually happened is none of my business.  …We're all living a fantasy." All the bogus accusations of childhood sexual abuse that exist - especially with the help of pundits - can, I think, be linked to the issue of alien abduction.If someone with strong emotions and convictions can be led to make false memories of being abused by their own parents, wouldn't someone with the same strong emotions and convictions be led to make false memories of being abused by aliens remember? The more I researched cases of self-reported alien abductions, the more I realized how similar they were to "resurrected childhood sexual abuse memories" descriptions.There is also a third type of self-report, the repressed memories of satanic ritual worshipers—memories that are said to feature primarily sexual torture, diarrhoea, infanticide, and cannibalism.In a survey of 2,700 members of the Psychological Society, 12% responded that they had dealt with a case of satanic ritual abuse (while 30% of reported cases were in the name of religion).In recent years, there have been almost 10,000 such reports in the United States every year.In the United States, a considerable number of those who induce people to engage in crazy Satanism, including law enforcement officials who organize lectures on such topics, are actually Christian fundamentalists.Their sect explicitly calls for an actual devil to disrupt the daily lives of human beings.Its logic is succinctly stated: "Without Satan, there is no God." It is clear that the police have a pervasive problem of gullibility.Here we excerpt some of the analysis of FBI expert Lanning in his book "Magic, Mystery and Ritual Crime".It was written on the basis of some painful experiences and was published in the October 1989 issue of Police Chiefs. Almost all accounts of Satanism and witchcraft are illustrated in terms of public religious beliefs.Faith, not reasoning, dominates most people's religious beliefs.So some law enforcement officials who were originally skeptical accepted the information preached at those conferences without seriously evaluating it or questioning its source. … For some people, everything that is different from their own religious belief system, is Satanism. Lanning then provided a long list of belief systems described as devil worship that he himself had heard in such lectures, including Roman Catholicism, Orthodox, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, rock music, mind communication with God, astrology and new age beliefs in general.Don't we get a sense from these beliefs of how the witch hunt began? He went on to say: In the personal religious belief system of law enforcement officials, perhaps Christianity is good and Satanism is evil.Under the Constitution, however, neither is good or bad.It's an important concept, but one that has been difficult for law enforcement officials to buy into.They were paid to uphold the Penal Law, not the Ten Commandments.Far more crimes and child abuse have been committed in the name of God, Jesus and Muhammad than in the name of Satan.Many people don't like this statement, but few can refute it. Many allegations of satanic ritual abuse often describe satanic worshipers killing babies and eating them in bizarre ecstasy.Detractors have accused their targets of abuse in this way throughout European history – including conspirators in Rome, the Passover "blood slander" against the Jews, and the suppression of the Knights Templar in France in the 14th century.Ironically, depictions of cannibal infanticide and incestuous orgies were also used when the Roman authorities persecuted the early Christians.Anyway, Jesus himself said (John 6:53): "Unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you cannot live." Eats his own flesh and drinks his own blood, but unsparing critics may mistake the Greek for "son of man" for "child" or "infant."Both the Tertullians and the early Christian priests tried to defend themselves from this absurd charge. Today, the corresponding lack of numbers of missing babies in police files is explained by the fact that children all over the world are born for this reason - of course by the abductees' recollection of alien and human breeding experiments Very rampant reasons.Similar to the alien abduction paradigm, Satanism is said to be passed down through generations in some families.As far as I know, as in alien abduction cases, there is no physical evidence to support such claims in court, although their emotional force is evident.The remote possibility of such an ongoing event motivates us mammals to act.Our belief in satanic rituals also elevates the social status of those who warn us of possible danger. Let's consider the following five scenarios: (1) Meira Abashi, a schoolteacher in Louisiana, who and her sister, after consulting with a voodoo practitioner, believed they were possessed by the devil.The nightmare of her nephew is one of the proofs.So they left their five children and went to Dallas, where Abashi's sister shot her in the eye.At trial, she defended her sister, who she said was trying to help her.But voodoo is not devil worship, it is a product of the combination of Catholicism and the religion of the indigenous people of Haiti, Africa. (2) Parents beat their child to death because she would not accept their Christian doctrine. (3) Child molesters read the Bible to victims to justify their actions. (4) The eyes of a 14-year-old boy were pulled out during an exorcism ceremony.The attacker was not a devil worshiper, but a Protestant fundamentalist priest devoted to his religious following. (5) A woman believed that her 12-year-old son was possessed by the devil, and after incest with him, she beheaded him.But there is no satanic ritual in this "possession". The second and third cases come from FBI files.The last two come from a 1994 study by Dr. Gail Goodman.Dr. Goodman, a psychologist at UC Davis, conducted the research for the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.They examined 12,000 reports of sexual abuse related to satanic ritual worship and found that none stood up to scrutiny.Cult abuse reported by therapists was based only on what "patients say in hypnotherapy" or children's "fear of devil symbols."Sometimes the diagnosis is based on behaviors that are common to children. "Physical evidence - usually 'scars' - was mentioned in only a few cases.But in most cases the scars are faint or non-existent. "Even if there are scars, it cannot be determined whether the victim himself caused it." As the latter scholar said, this is very similar to the alien abduction case.According to George K. Kanaway, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University, "The most common possible cause of those memories associated with cult worship is likely to be mutual deception between the patient and therapist." One of the thorniest cases of "recovered memories" of satanic ritual abuse is documented by Lawrence Wright in a famous book Remember-ing Satan (Knopf, 1994).This book is about Paul Ingram, who nearly ruined his life by being too gullible, too suggestible, and bad at questioning. In 1988, Ingram was the chairman of the Republican Party in Olympia, Wash., and the chief citizen representative of the local sheriff's department.He is deeply religious and responsible for educating school children about the dangers of drugs.Then the nightmare began when one of her daughters, following a highly emotional fundamentalist retreat, made multiple allegations, each more horrific than the last: Ingram sexually abused her, She got pregnant, tortured her, had her "shared" with other sheriff's deputies, introduced her to cult ceremonies, mutilated and ate babies, ... She said it started in her childhood and continued almost until she started "remembering" it everything. Ingram didn't understand why his daughter would tell such a lie, and while he had no memory of it, police investigators, a psychotherapist and his pastor all explained that sex offenders often suppress their criminal memory.Inexplicably isolated and eager to cooperate, Ingram tried to jog his memory.After a psychologist induced a trance with eyes-closed hypnosis, Ingram's mind began to visualize scenes similar to those described by the police.What is produced in consciousness is not as clear and definite as what is in real memory, but only fragments of the imagination that are as vague as fog.Each time he had an image of this in his mind--the more of it the more detestable--he was encouraged and increased his trust in these images.His pastor wants him to believe that God allows only real memories to emerge from his fantasies. "Man, it's like I made this stuff up," Ingram said, "but I didn't." He thinks it might be the devil.Under similar influences, combined with the church's secret intelligence network to spread the horrors of Ingram's latest confession, and the pressure exerted by the police, his other children and his wife began to "memory."Reputable townspeople were accused of participating in insane rituals.Law enforcement officials in other parts of the United States have also begun to pay attention to such incidents.Some say this is just the tip of the iceberg. When Berkeley's Richard Ofersey was called in by the prosecution, he performed a controlled experiment that was a revelation.He only hinted to Ingram that he had forced his son and daughter to have incest, and asked him to use the "recovery memory" method he had learned, which quickly elicited such a "memory".It doesn't need pressure and intimidation, just hints and this approach is enough.The participants, who have been identified (who have "recalled" many other things), deny that anything like this ever happened.Confronted with this evidence, Ingram vehemently denied that he had fabricated anything or been influenced by others, and that his memory of the event was as clear and "true" as his other memories. One of his daughters described horrific scars on her body from torture and forced abortions, but when she finally underwent medical examination, no corresponding scars were seen.The prosecution never charged Ingram with the heinous abuse.Ingram hired a lawyer who had never taken a criminal case, and on the advice of his pastor, he didn't even read Ofersy's report, which he was told would only confuse him.He pleaded guilty to six counts of rape and was sent to prison.While in prison awaiting sentencing, having left behind his daughter, pastor and fellow police officers, he considered it again and asked for his confession to be withdrawn. Distinguishable from a fantasy, his plea was dismissed.He was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and if it had been in the 16th century instead of the 20th, his whole family might have been burned at the stake—along with a fair share of Olympia, Washington, notables. The FBI has a skeptical report on the problem of cult abuse (Kenneth V. Lanning, "Investigators' Guide to Identifying Child Abuse in Religious Rituals" (January 1992), but it is Widespread neglect. Also, a 1994 study by the UK Department of Health of reports of cult abuse found that of 84 identified instances, none stood up to scrutiny. So why on earth are people so fanatical about So what? The study argues that: Evangelical Christian opposition to new religious movements has been a powerful influence in encouraging confirmation of cult abuse.In the UK, if not more important, at least as important in spreading the idea of ​​​​cult and abuse are "experts", both Americans and British.They may have little or no professional qualifications, but claim to specialize in "event experience". Those who believe in Satanism are a serious threat to our society and generally hate skeptics.Consider the analysis of Dr. Corydon Hammond, former president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnisis: I will explain to you that these people (skeptics) are either naive, with limited clinical experience, or they have the ignorance that people often have during the Holocaust, or they are sages and skeptics who doubt everything ; The third is that they themselves are members of some religious sect.I am sure there are people in this state... .Some people are doctors themselves, some are professionals in psychiatry, some belong to a certain sect, and some preside over a sect that has been passed down for generations...  I think the surveys are perfectly clear: we did three studies, the first two found 25% and 20% of multiple personality disorder in outpatients, seemingly victims of sectarian abuse; the third in specific This was found in 50% of the hospitalized patient population. In his statements, he appears to believe that the CIA conducted controlled experiments of nefarious Nazi ideas on thousands of uninformed American citizens.According to Hammond, the main motivation behind it was to "create an evil order to rule the world". In all three types of "recovered memories," there are specialists -- experts in alien abduction, experts in cults, and experts in evoking memories of childhood sexual molestation.As is usual in psychiatric therapy, patients choose or are assigned a therapist who is relevant to the problem they are complaining about.In all three cases, the therapists were used to help evoke scenes from certain events that were identified as having occurred long ago (sometimes decades ago); The patient's unmistakable distress was deeply moving; in all three cases at least some of the therapists asked leading questions—actually authority figures telling suggestive patients that they could remember (I almost write the word "acknowledgement"); in all three cases, there were networks of therapists who communicated the patient's medical history as well as treatment; defended their treatment; in all three cases, the hypnosis resulting from the treatment was downplayed; in all three cases, it was predominantly women who reported sexual harassment; in all three cases— With the exception of claims - there is no physical evidence.So it's hard not to suspect that alien abductions are just one part of a larger picture. What is this bigger picture?I posed this question to Dr. Fred H. Frankel, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and a hypnotist, and he replied: If alien abductions are part of a larger picture, what exactly is the larger picture?I dreaded stepping into territory that even angels would not enter.Anyway, what you describe fueled what was known as 'hysteria' at the turn of the last century.It is a pity that the term has been widely used by our contemporaries... not only casually, but also in disregard of the phenomena it stands for: heightened susceptibility to suggestion, imagination, sensitivity to literal cues, and infectious components. ...it appears that a large number of clinicians are unaware of this. Frankel pointed out that not only can therapists "regress" people so that they can regain lost memories of "past lives," but they can also make people "go forward" under hypnosis so that they can "remember" the future. .Like doing "return" or Mike's kidnapper hypnosis, this can have a strong emotional effect. "These people aren't trying to fool the therapist, they're fooling themselves," says Frankel. "They can't separate the small talk from their own experience." If we can't handle it well, if we feel a sense of guilt for not knowing ourselves well enough, can we not accept the professional opinion of a therapist with a credential on the wall?It's not our fault, we spared these troubles, those cultists, sexual harassers, aliens, the blame is on them.Wouldn't we pay a good price for this comfort?Aren't we against skeptical jackasses who say this is all figment of our imagination, or forced on us by therapists who please us? How much training in the scientific method, skepticism testing, and statistics have these therapists received?How much do they know that people make mistakes?Psychoanalysis is not a very demanding profession, but at least many of its practitioners have master's degrees.Most medical courses include the study of scientific results and methods, but the teaching of abuse cases does not seem to be in line with the scientific attitude.In the United States, the ratio of social workers to psychiatrists or PhDs in psychiatry is about 2 to 1. Among these therapists, most see their role as supporting their patients, not asking questions or doubting.No matter what the patient said, no matter how outlandish, they accepted it.Sometimes, a therapist's cue isn't a hint at all.Here is a hardly canonical report (FMS Newsletter from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, vol.4, no.4, p.3, 1995): My previous therapist testified that he still thought my mother was a devil worshiper and that my father molested me... exactly my therapist's inductive thought system and methods, including suggestion and persuasion, Lead me to believe that those lies are memories.When I doubted the veracity of the memory, he insisted it was true.Not only did he insist on its authenticity, but he told me that in order for me to heal I had to accept and remember everything. In a 1994 case in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a teenager, Nicole Althaus, with the support of her teacher and therapist, accused her father of sexually molesting her, causing her to Father was arrested.Nicole also reported that she had given birth to three children who were murdered by her relatives; that she had been raped in a crowded restaurant; and that her grandmother was flying around on a broomstick.A jury found Nicole's therapist and a local psychiatric clinic guilty of malfeasance and awarded Nicole $250,000 in damages.Her father is now out of prison.She and her parents have also reconciled.The number of such cases is on the rise. Competition among therapists for patients, and the apparent financial interest in prolonging treatment, make them reluctant to cast doubt on what patients say.Naive patients walk into a doctor's office and are told that their insomnia or obesity is the result of a complete oblivion of parental harassment, cult rituals, or alien abductions.Are the therapists aware of the patient's doubts?When there are ethical and other constraints, we need a controlled trial: send the same patient to experts in all three fields used.Did any of the patients say "No, your problems are not due to forgotten childhood molestation (or cult rituals, or alien abductions)"?How many people will ask "is there a more boring explanation"?Instead, Mike went so far as to tell one of his patients with admiration and reassurance that he was on a "hero's path."A group of "abductees" - each with separate but similar experiences - wrote: A few of us eventually plucked up the courage to state our experiences to career counselors, but they just dodged the subject sensitively, raised an eyebrow in silence, or interpreted the experience as a dream or a daydream, And condescendingly "reassuring" us that this happens to everyone, "but don't worry, you're basically mentally healthy." If it’s true, you might go crazy!” In a very relaxed situation, they found a compassionate therapist who not only took what they were saying as true and accepted their stories, but also knew many stories about alien corpses and knew the high-level government The characters are hiding things about UFOs. A typical UFO therapist finds his patients in three ways: they write to him at the address on the back of his book; Here he is; or they come to him after his speech.什么都还没谈，他们就已对彼此有很多了解。我很想知道，如果病人走进他的大门，却完全不了解通常的绑架案的描述，也不知道治疗专家自己的方法和信仰，那会是什么情景。 另一位著名的治疗专家把他自己关于外星人绑架的文章给病人看，以帮助他们“记起”自己的经历。当他们最终在催眠中回忆起的情景与他文章中的描述报相似时，他会感到很满足。这些案例相似的主要原因，是他相信确实发生过外星人绑架案。 一位UFO权威学者评价说：“如果催眠师对外星人绑架的对象没有足够的了解，绑架的真正本质也许永远不会被发现。”从这段评论中，我们是不是能够得出这样的结论：如果治疗专家没有意识到自己是在进行引导，病人又怎会被引导呢？ 有些时候，当我们“沉睡”时，会有从高处倒下，四肢着地的感觉。这被称为“惊吓反射”。也许，这种本能是从我们的祖先在树上睡觉时留下的。为什么我们不能想象，当我们来到坚实的大地上时，我们为什么不会“回忆起”(多么美妙的词汇)更好的东西呢？为什么我们不能假设，我们头脑中如此多的记忆宝藏中就有那么一些东西是在事件发生之后，将问题按照某个头脑容易接受的形态编造而成，按照令人愉悦的讲述和倾听好故事的方式，”将某些事情与我们曾经读过或听过的东西相混淆，然后植入我们的头脑中呢？