Upon browsing the internet, I stumbled across a site where they were blasting the alleged medium Patrick Hutchinson regarding his cold reading skills. This was not what interested me at all. As a student of psychology what caught my eye and concerned me greatly is that time and again, Patrick Hutchinson will ask a woman if they were abused!Defining abuse is actually quite tricky. Is a mother tapping your hand when you were a child caught being naughty classed as abuse? If this was what he deemed as abuse he could quite openly ask someone of this in public. But this was not the type of abuse Mr. Hutchinson refers to, nor is hoping for. The reason I state this quite categorically, is that on an occasion a guest attending one of his events who was vocal in her belief that nothing paranormal was afoot, he took this lady and her friend outside of the room to ask them if they had been abused. The question has to be asked, why did he do this?
The answer is quite plain and very disturbing to realise. What he was actually doing was hoping that they had been abused in the worst form, and that at that point take them to a very disturbing and vulnerable place in their past by asking them this. He was using their hopefully abusive past against them as a weapon! To teach them a lesson in being vocal in what they did not believe was happening. Thankfully neither had been abused, or they had buried an abusive past/situation into their subconscious. Either way Patrick Hutchinson did not receive the reaction that he had hoped.
Questions must be asked about his motives, not just on this occasion but every single time he asks this of someone. Apart from the mediumship code of self responsibility (you do not ask such personal questions of anyone, or embarrass them in any form, also why would a loved one want that to happen?) on a psychological level this guy is purposefully and consciously causing potential psychological damage. He is most definitely either placing that thought into an individuals psyche or dragging up a very distressing and emotional time for that person. Why would you do that to anyone?
This man is not a psychologist or a psychiatrist and has no right to ask that of any individual. A psychologist, a GP, a psychiatrist would be the only persons qualified and experienced enough to ask such questions. They are fully qualified, trained and experienced in dealing with the aftermath of bringing such memories to the surface, as a Psychologist/Psychiatrist you are fully aware of the dangers of auto suggestion. I will explain a little more what I mean by this.
Every single individual on this planet when remembering their past and accessing memories will do so in a jigsaw fashion. Their will be specific pieces of information that we retain, like memory joggers as such. In between those main pieces specifics will be hazy. And that is fine when recalling a family birthday party, your child’s birth etc. As regardless of the in between pieces the overall event was a positive one and filling in the blanks on those occasions will do no harm to you or anyone else.
But some individuals also have negative events that have happened in their childhood, where regardless if abuse has happened or not, there would have been negative times and emotions. By suggesting, by placing that thought there of abuse, whether it has happened or not, some individuals are quite capable of filling in those blanks with abuse that did not happen. This is a naturally occurring thing to do, and we are all capable of doing this. And the after affects of this could quite literally destroy an individual and their family.
Asking these types of questions, suggesting they have happened, this in itself is enough to manifest a psychotic episode in any individual, throwing in with it depression, anxiety and various mood disorders.
This man IS NOT a Psychologist, he IS NOT a Psychiatrist. Regardless whether it is to be believed or not of his mediumship skills, he is not qualified, nor has the right to ask any individual those types of questions. And more alarming, is that he uses a persons possible abuse against them. To bring their defensive walls down, to make them vulnerable to him and in the above mentioned situation where someone was vocally disbelieving his powers, he tried to use a person’s possible abuse as a weapon!
The only abuse I see happening here, is not from that persons past, but is standing directly in front of them asking that question! Make of this what you will, but I have studied these behaviour traits and that of others in my studies. And this man must be stopped, at all costs.
Regardless whether abuse has taken place or not, he is making sure, a victim stays a victim, or at the very least is potentially creating victims!
Mr. Hutchinson, if you are reading this, I strongly suggest you seek help. Because your behaviour and victimisation of these individuals suggests some serious aspects going on, possibly in your past and that you do indeed need help. Maybe nothing has happened in your past who knows? Either way you do need to stop what you are doing. If you feel enraged, or react to my suggesting abuse has happened in your past but it has not, then it does not matter, does it?
After all I am only suggesting it has. What harm could that possibly do?
By Kendra – Part of the Esoteric Online Team
