It is automatic in hypnosis and hypnotic-like practices. Freud gleefully accepted what his patients told him about abuse since it fulfilled his existing mindset until he saw it was just not credible and finally retracted his earlier statement that the abuse was real. Freud abandoned the use of formal hypnosis about this time. It didn't matter since psychotherapy as well as formal hypnotic induction produced the same hysteria in Freud's clients. In the present, therapists are seeing the same results of their work that Freud saw.
Many therapists believe that early childhood abuse is at the root of most problems in living.
This is the essence of psychotherapy and many therapists have attended the same seminars and read the same books. The material these therapists suggest to their patients is, therefore, similar to that suggested by Freud and has the same result of providing material for confabulated pseudomemories of abuse which never in fact occurred but were only imagined. Then a journey begins which has almost inevitable consequences. Then ensues further extended periods of therapy, perhaps for many years and maybe including multiple hospitalizations as these clients act out their beliefs that they've been victims of abuse by formerly trusted loved ones. Some of the patients with newly recovered memories listen to voices in our society which recommend seeking empowerment, revenge, and money.