My husband is a hypnotist and I suggest you tread carefully - you may 
want to check the credentials of the people involved.  For people with 
traumatic childhoods my husband usually suggests that they be 
hypnotized by a competent psychotherapeutic professional or that such a
professional be present.  We learned this from experience when he 
brought up so much trauma for me that it split my personality to some 
extent.  He felt very bad about that - he was just doing it for me to 
lose weight or some such thing.  
I've also been hypnotized in a group 8 or more years ago where a woman 
did try to implant memories in us that were not our own, to make the 
group work more cohesively - or so she said.  I had a very bad 
reaction, emotionally, to that.
I can relate to where you are coming from as I also have a year of my 
life that is blanked out completely.   But I do hope you will proceed 
with EXTREME caution and make sure that you have present the help you 
need and some support.
The good thing is, though, hypnosis can't make you do anything you 
really don't want to do and which is against your code or your 
standards - if they try to do this, people just wake up spontaneously.
I've used hypnosis for some things and received good help from it too.
But everyone who claims to be qualified isn't always as qualified as 
they should be, either.
--- TriToss (tm) Professional 1.0 - (Unregistered)
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