I wouldn't take your pain away, even if I could. “ She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’ 'I’m sorry,’ she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.” ― (Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight) I am asked, about once a week generally, if I can use hypnosis to help someone forget a former love. They want the entire idea of that person removed from their memory. Now, in theory, one could use hypnosis to do this. You may have seen in shows, a subject put into a state where they cannot remember their own name. The thing you don't really hear is that such a condition is very short lived. Especially when it comes to names – anything to do with identity – this is a very temporary state. The mind handles a few areas, including identity, sexuality and security, in a way that is very hard to manipulate. However, the way we d