Wow
I work with memory deprogramming using techniques similar to depth psychology in psychoanalytic practice.
I stress that we are dealing with perception and not necessarily reality. I will NEVER confirm a recovered memory as actually happening.
For example, when my daughter was still in diapers we went to the beach. She got severe diaper rash and the salt water and sand made it worse. I took her to the motor home and washed her private area, removing all the sand and applied lotion to assist the healing process.
Now roll forward 30 years and she recalls the memory. “My father touched my private parts and it hurt.”
While the beach event was real, the recalled memory fills in memory gaps creatively. Thankfully the recall problem did not happen in my situation and I only use this as an example.
Compound this situation with divorce, custody battles and bad therapists and you have a recipe for disaster. It has happened to many fathers.
Therapists often use hypnosis, guided imagery, muscle testing (kinesiology) and many other techniques in an attempt to assist in memory recall. They are all potentially very dangerous. I’ve cleaned up many therapist’s damages caused by bad techniques.
I once observed a man who had attempted suicide jump to the conclusion that maybe he had molested his daughter when she was young and that is why his wife and daughter rejected him. He was an inpatient in group therapy as a result of the suicide attempt and had just listened to a woman in the group emotionally recall how her uncle had molested her when she was young.
He was emotionally unstable, on medication and grasping for answers as to why his wife and daughter left him.