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In cases of intractable PTSD, hypnosis has been successfully used to alter triggers and memories that lead to the incapacitating panic that goes with PTSD. I agree that altering the memories in these cases can be useful. However, it is still preferable to treat the PTSD rather than simply cover its existence by memory alteration.  You can have a bacterial infection with a fever, and you can treat the symptom (fever) by taking an aspirin.  But unless you treat the actual infection, you are just masking the illness.