CMH Regression & Age Progression 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which affect bridge technique involves reconnecting a client to a past event by amplifying a current emotional feeling?
- Somatic bridge
- Affect bridge (Correct answer)
- Cognitive bridge
- Ideomotor bridge
Correct answer: Affect bridge
The affect bridge uses a present emotional feeling as a pathway to regress the client to an earlier experience that shares the same feeling.
Question 2: What is the primary risk of convincing a client that a confabulated memory is real during hypnotic regression?
- Deepening trance too quickly
- Creating a false memory that the client accepts as genuine (Correct answer)
- Preventing somatic release
- Causing immediate abreaction
Correct answer: Creating a false memory that the client accepts as genuine
Hypnotic suggestion can lead clients to construct and believe false memories, a serious ethical and psychological risk.
Question 3: In age progression, a 'future pace' is used primarily to:
- Anchor a positive state to a future context (Correct answer)
- Regress the client to a prenatal state
- Test the depth of hypnosis
- Access repressed childhood memories
Correct answer: Anchor a positive state to a future context
Future pacing anchors the desired behavioral or emotional change to an anticipated real-world situation, reinforcing generalization.
Question 4: When a client displays spontaneous abreaction during regression, the hypnotist's first priority is to:
- Immediately bring the client to full waking state
- Deepen the trance and continue the regression
- Provide containment and support while maintaining therapeutic rapport (Correct answer)
- Switch to age progression immediately
Correct answer: Provide containment and support while maintaining therapeutic rapport
The hypnotist should maintain composure, offer supportive language, and guide the client safely through the emotional release.
Question 5: The 'camera technique' in hypnotic regression asks the client to:
- Visualize a zoom lens focusing on painful memories
- Observe the past event as if watching it on a screen (Correct answer)
- Record post-hypnotic suggestions mentally
- Create a future self-image using visual anchors
Correct answer: Observe the past event as if watching it on a screen
The camera or screen technique creates dissociative distance, allowing the client to review the memory without being overwhelmed.
Question 6: Which statement about age regression and legal proceedings is most accurate for a CMH?
- Hypnotically refreshed testimony is admissible in all US courts
- Hypnotic regression reliably uncovers suppressed factual memories
- Hypnotically refreshed testimony is inadmissible or restricted in many US jurisdictions (Correct answer)
- Courts mandate hypnotic regression for trauma-related cases
Correct answer: Hypnotically refreshed testimony is inadmissible or restricted in many US jurisdictions
Many US states restrict or bar hypnotically refreshed testimony because of the risk of memory contamination and confabulation.
Question 7: A client regresses to age 7 and begins speaking in a child-like voice. This is an example of:
- Hypermnesia
- Revivification (Correct answer)
- Age progression
- Somnambulism
Correct answer: Revivification
Revivification occurs when the client re-lives a past experience so vividly that they behaviorally and emotionally re-enact it.
CMH Regression & Age Progression 2
Which affect bridge technique involves reconnecting a client to a past event by amplifying a current emotional feeling?