When and how did regression therapy originate?
Who is/are the founder/s of this modality of healing?
The origin of regression therapy as a
modality of healing can be traced back to the Dream Incubation Schools of
ancient Egypt and Greece. Then there were also the ancient Greek and Egyptian
Mystery Schools, which provided access the past lives of individuals.
Regression therapy as a healing method drew a lot from the work and findings in
the field of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud, the famous psychologist of the
nineteenth century, and he inspires much of its current form.
Freud may be termed as the Grand Daddy of
regression therapy. He was the first person to propagate to the world that the
subconscious, if brought to the individual's consciousness and awareness, has
the potential to heal. Before Freud, the psychologist largely depended on
hypnosis to access the subconscious, but the art of hypnosis, then, was not as
refined as it is today. When Freud realised that he could not take his clients
effectively into a state of trance through hypnosis, he resorted to the art and
science of Free Association[1] to tap into the subconscious minds of his
clients. This technique of Free Association is what is largely used in
regression therapy today. Then we have Carl Jung, in the twentieth century, who
started accessing past memories from the human subconscious withthe help of
active imagination, Edgar Cayce, too, was known for acting as a channel to
access the past lives of other individuals. In a crude way, in the 1950s,
Stanislav Grof started using Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) to access
memories of individuals associated with the womb, that is, the prenatal
experience or foetal memories. His work and experiments in the field of
Transpersonal Psychology shook and shocked the scientific community of that
era: When there are neurons yet to be formed, that is, when the neurons are not
yet myelinated, how can memories be retained or stored by the foetus? The next
form of regression, also in 1950, came with Dianetics, a movement popularised
by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and largely followed by the
supporters of Scientology and the Nation of Islam. Under this movement, the
process of accessing past memories was called auditing. The drawback of this
technique as a therapy was that it focused more on diagnosing rather than
treating. Its focus was on finding out what memory from the past was affecting
the individual's current situation, and letting them live with the trauma of
whatever they explored through their subconscious, without integrating or
giving a proper dosure to the memory in the present. In such cases, the issues
would largely be left unresolved, reducing the therapeutic effect of Dianetics.
These drawbacks were largely cleared
through intense work in the field by Morris Netherton, the author of Past Lives
Therapy. Netherton refined the process and means of tapping into the
subconscious of the human mind and gaining access to past memories for healing
in the present.
In 1960, Denys Kelsey, a British
psychologist, and his intuitively gifted wife, Joan Grant, published their
findings of past life regression in their revolutionary book, Many Lifetimes.
Denys, a scientist himself, approached the subject of regression in a very
scientific and research-oriented way. He challenged the scientific community by
bringing out the hypothesis that we cannot deny the existence of something
abstract just because of an absence of concrete proof. He was referring to the
belief of having access to memories associated with past lives, and not just
those from the past of the current life or foetal memories.
The revolutionary work of the British
couple mentioned above, paved the way for many other therapists from the field
of psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis and metaphysics to come forward and
conduct research and work in regression therapy and, at the same time, use it
as a therapeutic technique to heal their clients. These include the likes of
Helen Wambach, Michael Newton, Chet Snow, Roger Woolger, Thorwald Dethlefsen,
and so on.
Last but not the least, one cannot but
refrain from mentioning and acknowledging Dr Brian Weiss, whose work and
writings truly brought this modality of healing to the vision and accessibility
of a very large mass of world population.
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