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Regression therapy for childhood abuse
People who have experienced trauma in childhood (sexual abuse, physical abuse,
natural disasters, communal violence) often grow into adulthood carrying with
them a variety of repressed memories which rise to the surface in neuroses,
acting out and other forms of mental disturbance. The aim of regression therapy
is to gain access to these repressed memories and unlock their content. 
Engaging in this therapeutic option can help victims of childhood trauma regain
control of their lives and emotions.
One of the most widespread criticisms of this form of therapy is that unlocking
painful memories can lead to temporarily increased dysfunction in patients,
causing disruption in family life (where a family member is the perpetrator) and
in other relationships, including those at work. But for the victim, this form of
therapy can also be intensely liberating. It is known to have led to the
prosecution of perpetrators of violence against children, also. At the same time,
the possibility of “false memories” (also called pseudo memories) is a danger
which much be closely monitored by the clinical professional in play, as these
can lead to unfair accusations, prosecution and even wrongful imprisonment.
Under this therapy, patients are hypnotized in order to help them relive traumatic
events and re-experience the emotions accompanying them. Some of these may
be extreme rage and intense sadness. In reliving the emotion, the adult is given
access to their childhood emotional landscape via the memories being relived in
hypnotherapeutic regression therapy. In returning them, diachronically, to the
age at which the trauma occurred, the patient is invited to re-enter the world of
the trauma and to finally gain control over its emotional and physical content,
leading to liberation from adult symptoms. 

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One of the most prevalent resulting adult psychological illnesses is Borderline
Personality Disorder (BPD), particularly in women. By returning women who
suffer from this illness to its psychogenesis (illness’s origin), hypnotherapy can
provide relief. But what about when regression therapy goes terribly wrong? 
Dr. Linda Baird’s work in the field of BPD’s psychogenesis has yielded some
interesting results, for example, BPD sufferers were found to have suffered from
a deficit of attachment to parental figures in childhood. But regression therapy
for these cases has shown mixed results, some of them disastrous and tragic. 
The same is true of attachment therapy for children who experience neglect and
abuse, as detailed in the following account of a therapeutic encounter which
ended in the death of the child.