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What is RMT?

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What is RMT?

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RMT is a therapeutic technique which is based on the belief that many children repress all memory of severe sexual abuse. According to this belief, they may have been brutally raped many times a week over a period of five years; yet, as adults, they have no recollection of the attacks. In fact, they might believe that their childhood was quite happy. RMT therapists believe that symptoms of insomnia, depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, etc., often appear in adulthood because of these repressed memories. These therapists typically use some combination of suggestive techniques, like hypnotism, guided imagery and visualizations, dream therapy, age regression, automatic writing — or even simply having the client imagine abuse that might have happened to them. After weeks or months of therapy, many client begin to recall what appear to be fractured images of abuse. These gradually coalesce into what feel like actual memories of sexual abuse. RMT appears to be a mechanism by whic

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