by cardigan » July 2nd, 2011, 1:48 am
I don't think that hypnosis in any way was responsible for that student killing himself. Rather he was a troubled soul who sought help for his problems through hypnosis. Unfortunately he was too late and decided to commit suicide before the hypnotist had been able to help!
You can not through hypnosis alter a person's core values, go against their morals or ethics, or persuade them to do anything, they wouldn't want to do. With hypnotherapy you can help the client get an insight into what traumatic occurrences happened early on in his life, to give him the kind of mental problems, he later had - as a result of these traumas. But if you are a skilled hypnotherapist you never let the client leave your office before uncovered traumas like these have been dealt with and have been completely neutralized.
So if dr. Kenney did regular hypnotherapy, there's no chance he wouldn't know how to do this. But it's typical that every time something that can be connected to hypnosis is put into the media, a virtual witch hunt begins and people who don't know a thing about hypnosis rally around to ride the wave - so to speak.
I'd lke to recommend you watch the episode of Penn and Teller Bullshit where they deal with hypnosis. They practically ruined a very good and professional hypnotist (Wendi Friesen) by doing an interview with her, recording her work for a week, and then make a show about her, where they - because they were secretly biassed against hypnosis only showed a bunch of shots they had carefully selected and edited - to make it sound like she could cure cancer, and that people need not seek medical help - that sort of thing. And she was stupid enough to not have a contract with them saying that she would have the right to veto their show - before it was aired. But she was the victim of Penn and Teller. No doubt about it. They never showed any of her work with clients or stuff to show what great things you can achieve with hypnosis. They were the one ones who did the bullshit.
Don't believe everything they print in the media!
Cardigan