Past life regression therapy

Past life therapy (PLT), regression, memory regression consists of using hypnosis to make a person recover what practitioners believe to be memories of past lives.[1][2] This practice is considered a pseudoscience and is widely discredited by the medical community.[3] Experts generally consider claims of past life memories to be fantasies, delusions, or a form of confabulation.[3]

According to psychologist Robert Baker, the belief in reincarnation is the main predictor that the patient will have a past life memory during past life therapy.[2] One of the most notorious cases was that of an American woman who remembered being Bridey Murphy and sang old Irish songs; when the case was investigated, it was shown that she did not remember a past life but her childhood instead.[4] The book The Search for Bridey Murphy details this story.[4]