How often is Hypnotherapy used in high profile criminal cases?
November 30, 2010 by admin
Filed under history of hypnosis
Question by Kayren: How often is Hypnotherapy used in high profile criminal cases?
How often is hypnotherapy used in high profile criminal cases and does it help the defendant? How effect is it toward helping a defendant? Are there any list of criminals that have used hypnotherapy or criminal cases where it has been used and been effective?
Best answer:
Answer by fr_chuck
I don’t know of any cases using Hypnotherapy, I have heard of some using hypnosis from a licensed medical professional.
But in general the results are not allowed in court and it has little if any value.
What do you think? Answer below!
Almost never.
Most courts do not grant any particular credit or weight to evidence obtained through hypnotic recall, and some jurisdictions discount or refuse to admit memories obtained in this manner because of the potential for undue influence.
Never in a smart police department. You run the risk of tainting the testimony by using hypnosis, and having it thrown out.
Today, hypnotherapy is extremely rarely used and next to never in high profile cases. The more common therapies used in the treatment of criminals are behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and RET (Rational Emotive) Therapy.
Corrections has shifted to a psychological-cognitive approach to the treatment of violent and non-violent offenders.