The practice of threatening
your mind with an unpleasant memory to force it to produce information you can'
t recall.
While other memory techniques require practice and
discipline, using Memory Hostage only requires a willingness to remember your most unpleasant experiences in great detail.
Rupert squinted slightly as he willed his memory to serve him through an inner Memory Hostage monologue. "Come on you
bastard... give me my wife's birth
date. Give me the
date or I'll remember what my stepfather looked like naked while he had a moustache..."