Dr. Edith Fiore

Career and Education

Dr. Edith Fiore earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Miami and established a clinical practice in Saratoga, California, where she worked for more than thirty years. Beginning in 1975, she transitioned from general behavioral psychology to specializing in hypnotherapy and regression therapy, becoming one of the field's pioneering figures.

Regression Therapy Pioneer

Fiore achieved prominence in the 1970s-1980s as a leading practitioner of past-life regression therapy, publishing her foundational work You Have Been Here Before (1975), which established therapeutic protocols for accessing prior-life memories through hypnosis. She trained over 2,000 mental health professionals in her innovative regression techniques and lectured internationally on the applications of reincarnation-based psychotherapy and spirit possession treatment.

UFO Abduction Case Documentation

In the late 1980s, Fiore began documenting cases of patients who, under hypnosis, reported vivid memories of being taken aboard spacecraft and subjected to medical examinations by non-human entities. She published Encounters: A Psychologist Reveals Case Studies of Abductions by Extraterrestrials (1989), presenting fourteen detailed case studies of individuals who reported abduction experiences. Her work documented common themes: periods of missing time, telepathic communication with entities, physical and mental examination procedures, and residual psychological effects including nightmares, sleep disorders, and unexplained physical healings.

Fiore's clinical approach treated alleged abduction experiences as genuine trauma requiring therapeutic intervention rather than dismissing them as psychological artifact. Her methodology relied on hypnotic regression to help patients access fragmented memories and process associated anxiety and fear responses.

Legacy

Fiore retired in 1997 and relocated to Florida. She became known in UFO research circles through appearances on Coast to Coast AM and published work with mainstream publishers (Ballantine/Random House), lending clinical legitimacy to the study of abduction phenomena. Her dual focus on regression therapy and alien contact remains influential in alternative therapeutic circles, though her work remains peripheral to mainstream psychology.