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How Regression and Abreactions Facilitates Neurosis

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How Regression and Abreactions Facilitates Neurosis

For the process of general therapy to be regarded as successful, three key concepts must

exist. These three concepts are suppression, repression, and abreaction. Besides, the ideas

mentioned above are also essential and relevant to hypnotherapy because they are responsible for

initiating and controlling, and regulating the conscious and the unconscious process of a human

being. Besides, regression and Abreactions are considered the best method of treating and

preventing Neurosis. Neurosis is a mental medical disorder responsible for the occasioning sense

of distress and severe deficit in functioning. At the same time, regression therapy is responsible
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for treating the unresolved memories which cause mental wellness (Alladin, 2008). A sound and

adequate theoretical-practical understanding of regression and abreaction are essential to a

hypnotherapist’s professional integrity and ability to understand the contributions and effects of

regression and abreaction to the neurosis problem.

Regression therapy has since been identified as the best remedy and cure for memories

responsible for triggering an individual's mental disturbances. Most people who seek regression

therapy often suffer from depression, phobias amongst other issues (Fredrick & McNeal, 1999).

Therapists believe that regression therapy can enhance the patient's state of mind by re-

examining and re-exploring the previous incidences that were influential in developing the issues

affecting them. According to Dryden & Neenan (2004), the therapist describes abreaction as any

emotional or physical reaction response to any stimulation which is most likely to trigger past

painful and dreaded memory experienced before. In the course of regression therapy, the core

obligation is to address and process trauma which is required for the therapeutic result to be

considered as successful (Dryden& Reeves 2013). It is treating trauma that is important, not the

abreaction process or the therapeutic action. An example of Abreactions includes yelling, crying,

getting hysterical, and any other form of emotional release. The fact that regression accords a

person the chance to recall a previous incident and grant them the opportunity to revisit and re-

examine the situation does not warrant the occurrence of abreaction (Palmer, 2000). However,

addressing the trauma will give the client the opportunity to view the entire process differently,

which will, in turn, allow the healing process to occur.

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud spent his early years into his career carrying out several

experiments on regression hypnosis. Most of the patients were assisted in recovering from

repressed memories which they had experienced during their childhood by hypnosis. While he
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was administering the patients' treatment, Sigmund discovered that most of the patient's

hysterical symptoms would disappear whenever any conversation touched on the patient's

original trauma ensued. It was then that Sigmund was able to figure that the hysteria was a result

of the repression of ideas that had been rejected by the conscious mind as exhibited through the

body symptoms. However, in the age of regression, the subject still has the potential to

experience the visualized events to be realistic but not related to them. The patient's ability to

answer questions and follow instructions while even in a non –regressive stage has not been

interfered with. For example, the patient would come back to the present time if asked to do so

Most therapists have likened the success of regression therapy to goring of a boil. This is

because piercing a bump would release the pus, which was a poison hampering the wound's

healing process. The process of draining the pus from the injury is a painful venture. Similarly,

trauma relief can also be detrimental to the patient because some of those memories can make

some feel the physical pain back. It is always advisable that the clients be accorded the

opportunity to feel and experience abreaction by granting them support and safety. It is not a

noble idea to try force or attempt to restrain abreaction. It is the prerogative of the clients that

they should be left to manifest their emotions in the best ways that suit them best.

Abreaction is considered an essential tool in which is crucial for the hypnosis and

psychotherapy process. Besides, other ways can be used to search for the emotional discharge

traits in a patient, for example (Rebirthing, primal, re-decision therapy, and gestalt). Most of the

Gestalt therapist often employs several creative and argumentative tools to induce emotion.

However, Catharsis and abreactions are often reassured (Hunter & Eimer,2012). The objective is

to achieve integration of influence and encounter the past and the present, which results in an

intensified recognition of a plethora of effects the person faces and the ability to cope with them
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more efficiently. Surprisingly, the therapy equation tends to remain the same, meaning effective

discharge combined with insights is all equal to change.

According to Yakpo (2015), the regressed subjects ought to speak about the events of the

current happenings. However, that one cannot qualify them to be therapeutic work. It has been

established that the age regression of subjects, the most critical aspect, is the emotional element

that emanates from the experience, resulting in relieving the memory. There are some striking

similarities with the original (Hunter, 2005). However, it will require some modifications

because the person seems to be much older and mature, boosted by the fact that learning has

been proceeding. Patients, therefore, tend to experience utmost anger when they are attempting

to forget the bad memories of being barbarously treated. However, the bitterness in them remains

that of a child and not that of an adult.

In conclusion, the point and the central point of an argument is that undergoing and

experiencing trauma coupled with reliving the memory while being propped up at the same

moment will eventually affect change. Even though abreaction is considered as part of the

process which occurs in therapy. Abreaction has since been identified as not being a mandatory

requirement, and it is not essential too. In a nutshell, the best approach to tackle trauma is

approaching it from different perspectives accompanied and supported by a professional is the

best alternative to adequately and adequately counter neurosis in the long run.
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