Atavistic regression

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Atavistic regression is a hypnosis-related concept introduced by Australian scholar and psychiatrist Ainsley Meares in 1960. Meares beleived that hypnosis reverted the subject mentally to a younger age, switching off the higher functions of the brain and altering the subject's logic processing so that they readily accept basic/literal logic without the normal filters.