Hypnotic regression is a therapeutic strategy that involves guiding patients back to prior memories via hypnosis. In psychology, regression serves to bring back emotions, events, or traumas from the past which were buried, dissociated or unresolved. The primary aim is to allow patients to surface subconscious issues that are operant in the now. It is, however, restive with the concept of false memories, as the reconciliation with postulated events that gave rise to memories is heretical. Example: A patient under hypnosis may recover memories from the early teenage years associated with the distressing emotions. These memories may now play a role in the patient’s chronic anxiety.
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