Hypnosis doesn't work like that. If you want we can discuss why. It is one of the tools in the box available, but it isn't particularly useful in this case because it is passive. A better approach would be to use EMDR to desensitize the feminist to their traumatic baggage, then have them participate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to deliberately retrain their thinking. CBT is hard work.
I agree that deprogramming is required. Most feminists have taken on "feminism" as part of their core identity. It will take intensive, skilled therapy to change their mind, and they will have to work their ass off for years.
Alternatives include tossing them into a survival situation and letting the feminist almost starve to death or something similarly high stress. Reality is non-negotiable to someone on the run from Congolese death squads or Boko Haram rapists or whatever. After that for a year or two they can reconsider their place in the world and reassess who they are; Probably with therapy.
There's a better version of EMDR called ART (what's with these gay acronyms) - it doesn't fuck people's brains up as quickly but I gotta admit, when I read about it it's the most weird ass out-there form of therapy I've ever seen.
Why would a skilled therapist take less care with EMDR than with hypnosis? I agree that it is powerful and easy to screw up, but so is every tool worth using.
EMDR aims to break the emotional links between emotion and memory. If it is done wrong it can cause damage and result in misplaced emotion and much more.
How much Theory of Mind have you read? It is fairly big field.
One branch of Theory of the Mind is that your mind is made up of a number of neural systems that hand off to each other as environment and demand requires.
For example, you are driving a car. You are daydreaming about a funny meme video that you watched. When you next start paying attention you have driven home.
This theory of the mind proposes that your brain has a set of neurons that are associated with driving and they take over when you are driving. Without direction (a correct hand-off and oversight) they just do what they are good at; You drive home.
Hypnosis is deep relaxation where no one agent is in charge. All agents are listening. If the subject is relaxed enough and comfortable enough then they will accept verbal direction as though it were a hand off and / or oversight from another agent. They trust the external voice as though it were an internal voice.
That said, the agents can still disagree. That is why you can't hypnotize someone to kill their mother, unless they were already going to do that. The hypnosis can be discarded by the other agents as wrong or useless.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy also uses agent theory, but it uses the subject's voice to give direction to the other agents and to shape the way handovers and / or oversight happen all the time.
Hypnosis happens only while sitting in the chair under direction of the hypnotist. CBT happens as long as the subject continues to direct their thinking and retrain their neural networks. They are literally reprioritizing the connections between neurons by consistent retraining.
EMDR, Hypnosis and CBT are all tools a therapist can use. They should use the right tool for the job.
But seriously, no session of hypnosis is going to change the fundamental identity of a subject. You can't stop a person from being a hard core feminist anymore than you can turn them into a frothing fascist. There are limits and it requires cooperation. The more alien and extreme the script, the more the other agents of the mind will reject it.
Hypnosis doesn't work like that. If you want we can discuss why. It is one of the tools in the box available, but it isn't particularly useful in this case because it is passive. A better approach would be to use EMDR to desensitize the feminist to their traumatic baggage, then have them participate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to deliberately retrain their thinking. CBT is hard work.
I agree that deprogramming is required. Most feminists have taken on "feminism" as part of their core identity. It will take intensive, skilled therapy to change their mind, and they will have to work their ass off for years.
Alternatives include tossing them into a survival situation and letting the feminist almost starve to death or something similarly high stress. Reality is non-negotiable to someone on the run from Congolese death squads or Boko Haram rapists or whatever. After that for a year or two they can reconsider their place in the world and reassess who they are; Probably with therapy.
There's a better version of EMDR called ART (what's with these gay acronyms) - it doesn't fuck people's brains up as quickly but I gotta admit, when I read about it it's the most weird ass out-there form of therapy I've ever seen.
Why would a skilled therapist take less care with EMDR than with hypnosis? I agree that it is powerful and easy to screw up, but so is every tool worth using.
EMDR aims to break the emotional links between emotion and memory. If it is done wrong it can cause damage and result in misplaced emotion and much more.
How much Theory of Mind have you read? It is fairly big field.
One branch of Theory of the Mind is that your mind is made up of a number of neural systems that hand off to each other as environment and demand requires.
For example, you are driving a car. You are daydreaming about a funny meme video that you watched. When you next start paying attention you have driven home.
This theory of the mind proposes that your brain has a set of neurons that are associated with driving and they take over when you are driving. Without direction (a correct hand-off and oversight) they just do what they are good at; You drive home.
Hypnosis is deep relaxation where no one agent is in charge. All agents are listening. If the subject is relaxed enough and comfortable enough then they will accept verbal direction as though it were a hand off and / or oversight from another agent. They trust the external voice as though it were an internal voice.
That said, the agents can still disagree. That is why you can't hypnotize someone to kill their mother, unless they were already going to do that. The hypnosis can be discarded by the other agents as wrong or useless.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy also uses agent theory, but it uses the subject's voice to give direction to the other agents and to shape the way handovers and / or oversight happen all the time.
Hypnosis happens only while sitting in the chair under direction of the hypnotist. CBT happens as long as the subject continues to direct their thinking and retrain their neural networks. They are literally reprioritizing the connections between neurons by consistent retraining.
EMDR, Hypnosis and CBT are all tools a therapist can use. They should use the right tool for the job.
But seriously, no session of hypnosis is going to change the fundamental identity of a subject. You can't stop a person from being a hard core feminist anymore than you can turn them into a frothing fascist. There are limits and it requires cooperation. The more alien and extreme the script, the more the other agents of the mind will reject it.