Regression Therapy

Regression therapy has a holistic view of the mind, body and spirit having a fundamental interconnectedness. Healing involves reconnection with the root cause of the problem and allowing the client to understand deeply the issues associated with the problem before they are resolved at both physical, emotional and a spiritual level. Sometimes the root cause is a traumatic experience below the level of conscious awareness and has been affecting the client’s well being. Client experiences may go back to early childhood and prenatal experiences or into stories from the subconscious that may appear to be a past life. Any client experience is treated in an accepting and authentic way. Various psychotherapies may be used in the regression process such as hypnosis, gestalt psychology, psychodrama, body therapy, together with various transpersonal and energy techniques [Tomlinson, Andy "Healing the Eternal Soul", O books, 2006, page 14-16] .

History of regression therapy

As early as the 1950s J. L. Moreno saw regression as an opportunity for clients to gain new insights and to transform them in his group therapy that was successfully used in clinical outpatient groups and the mental health organizations in the United States. Early pioneers and authors in regression therapy include American Dr Morris Netherton [Netherton, M. and Shiffren, N. "Past Lives Therapy", Morrow, New York, 1979] , Dutchman Dr Hans TenDam [Ten Dam, H. "Deep Healing", Tasso Publishing, 1996] and Englishmen Dr Roger Woolger [Woolger, R., "Other Lives Other Selves", Thorsons, 1999] and Andy Tomlinson. Regression therapy has been taken into the traditional medical world. This includes the work of Professor Mario Simoes in the Facility of Medicine in Portugal and Terumi Okuyama M.D., the first medical doctor in Japan to integrate regression therapy as part of medical treatment in Japan. Other pioneers are Dr Pavel Gyngazov, a medical doctor who uses regression therapy in Russia, Dr Newton Kondavati M.D. in India and Julio Peres M.D. in Brazil.

Application of regression therapy

Regression therapy has been found helpful dealing with issues of self-esteem and personal empowerment and residual scars from adult or childhood sexual abuse. It has provided swift and effective release of deep emotional blockages, states of anxiety, depression, phobias, unexplainable chronic pain and persistent symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder [Woolger, R. and Tomlinson, A., "Deep Memory Process and The Healing of Trauma" in "Network Review - Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network", summer 2004, p 17-21] [Ogden, P. Minton, K. "Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: One Method for Processing Traumatic Memory", in "Traumatology", 6(3), Article 3, October 2000.] . Research by Helen Wambach [Snow, C. "Past Life therapy: The experiences of twenty-six therapists" "The Journal of Regression Therapy", 1986, Volume I (2). ] used the results of a survey of 26 therapists who had worked with a total of 17,350 clients using regression. Of these, 63 per cent had an improvement in their emotional and physical symptoms, and 40 per cent an improvement in their interpersonal relationships. Other research has found that client problems previously thought to be non-responsive to psychotherapy can be resolved with regression therapy. Ron Van der Maesen [Van der Maesen, R. "Past Life Therapy for People who Hallucinate Voices", in "The Journal of Regression Therapy", Volume XIII (1), 1999] worked with fifty-four people who had disturbed voices from a non-detectable source (auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia as defined in DSM-1V), of whom eighty percent where being treated by a psychiatrist or by a psychiatric outpatient clinic. The research was supervised by the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and six month after therapy an external psychiatrist found that the disturbing voices had disappeared in 25%, and a further 32% could now cope.

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