Malevolent Spirits
 

The Basics and History of Hypnotherapy's Role in Attachment Removal

 

William and Judith Baldwin's Answers to Frequently Asked Questions explains what attachment removal and past life regression is. Here is an interview of him.

"James Hyslop (1854-1920) was professor of logic and ethics at Columbia University, New York, from 1889 to 1902. He authored a book on psychology in 1895, and taught the subject at Smith College when the science was in its infancy. Dr. Hyslop was an experimentalist and empiricist. After he admitted the credibility of the existence of spirits, it required ten years of investigation to convince himself of the possibility of obsession by discarnate beings as a cause of mental illness. In the years that followed, he accumulated the facts that make it scientifically probable. He is the true pioneer in the systematic investigation of spirit obsession and the possession as a cause of mental disorder.

Dr. Carl Wickland was an avowed spiritualist. He was also an exorcist. Wickland graduated from Durham Medical College in 1900 and nine years later became chief psychiatrist at the National Psychopathic Institute in Chicago. In 1918 he moved to Los Angeles and established the National Psychological Institute where he continued the work of healing spirit obsession. His seminal work in the treatment of spirit obsession and possession is chronicled in his two books, Thirty Years Among The Dead (1924) and Gateway to Understanding (1934).

Dr. Wickland first became interested in spirit possession after observing the frequency with which people suffered character changes after engaging in such practices as using the ouija board and automatic writing. Many such people required hospitalization for apparent mental illness. Wickland consulted discarnate intelligences through his wife, Anna, who was an excellent and gifte medium. He was told that possession of the living by the "earthbound" spirits of deceased humans was the cause, and that he could alleviate the symptoms of the victims if he followed their instructions. The work was conducted with the help of a "concentration circle," a small group of people assembled to support this Rescue Work." -- pp. 13,14 FREEING CAPTIVES by Louise Ireland-Frey, M.D.

Depossession (also replacement) gives a little better explanation of how the 2 therapies relate to each other and what earlier therapists found out about it all.

European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis: Spirit Releasement Therapy By Dr Alan Lindsay Sanderson M.B., B.S., MRCP., DPM., MRCPsych
Case Report gives an example of one case of spirit releasement.

The History & Psychology of Spirit Possession & Exorcism by: Mark Bancroft, MA gives a basic understanding of who taught who what in this art.


Who is Who and The Lineage of Teaching of  Hypnotherapists Doing Attachment

Removals.


Ben H. Swett learned from William J. Baldwin, Ph.D. in 1989 and has probably the best collection of releasement work available on the web.

William J. Baldwin, Ph.D. learned from Edith Fiore

Dr. Hugh Harmon of Odyssey Of The Soul was also one of the earlier deposession hypnotherapy practitioners. -- An email reply from Pamela Chilton about their practice.

Dr. Harmon founded the non-profit organization,
Foundation for Research and Exploration of Mind Motivation

"Inspired by the work of
Fiore and Baldwin, Irene Hickman refined a technique of exorcism called Remote Deposession. Hickman was concerned of the role that suggestion might play in SRT which works directly with the afflicted person using hypnosis. "


The Demonologists


Demonology

Ryan Buell of The Pennsylvania State Univ. Paranormal Research Society

Dave Considine, like John Zaffis, studied with Ed and Lorraine Warren; and works with Bishop Robert McKenna.

John Zaffis is a paranormal investigator who has specialized in looking at the darker side of things.

Listen to Lorraine Warren from the Darkness on The Edge of Town radio show archives.

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