Editing Hypnosis (section)

===Forensic hypnosis===
{{main|Forensic hypnosis}}
The use of hypnosis to exhume information thought to be buried within the mind in the investigative process and as evidence in court became increasingly popular from the 1950s to the early 1980s with its use being debated into the 1990s when its popular use mostly diminished.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Winter|first=Alison|date=2013-03-01|title=The rise and fall of forensic hypnosis|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369848612001057|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences|series=Special Issue: Forensic Cultures|language=en|volume=44|issue=1|pages=26–35|doi=10.1016/j.shpsc.2012.09.011|pmid=23142619|issn=1369-8486|access-date=4 May 2023|archive-date=14 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414222226/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369848612001057|url-status=live}}</ref> Forensic hypnosis's uses are hindered by concerns with its reliability and accuracy. Controversy surrounds the use of hypnotherapy to retrieve memories, especially those from early childhood. The [[American Medical Association]] and the [[American Psychological Association]] caution against [[recovered-memory therapy]] in cases of alleged childhood trauma, stating that "it is impossible, without corroborative evidence, to distinguish a true memory from a false one."<ref name="APA">{{cite web|url=http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/mem.html |title=Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse |publisher=American Psychological Association |access-date=22 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205061916/http://apa.org/pubinfo/mem.html |archive-date=5 December 2006}}</ref> [[Past life regression]] is regarded as [[pseudoscience]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Astin JA, Shapiro SL, Eisenberg DM, Forys KL | title = Mind-body medicine: state of the science, implications for practice | journal = The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice | volume = 16 | issue = 2 | pages = 131–47 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12665179 | doi = 10.3122/jabfm.16.2.131 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.501.9041| s2cid = 2309771 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/dr.-stevensons-publications/STE40.pdf |title=Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences – University of Virginia School of Medicine |publisher=Medicine.virginia.edu |access-date=20 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615183751/http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/dr.-stevensons-publications/STE40.pdf |archive-date=15 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>