I can even soooort of see the logic there if the patient was driving the reenactment or at least consented to the reenactment. (ETA: Like, I can see having the idea that in a patient controlled/consented reenactment you could be giving them a sense of power and control over the memory and the experience, à la "name and know your monsters and they get less scary". Deeply flawed, but I can at least see how you get there.) Inflicting it on someone in a stupor . . . *interpretive dance*

But then again, pop-psych has a long history of curing people's dry eyes by pouring chilli oil in them, so really I oughtn't to be surprised on that score. (Hell, on more than one occasion actual psych has gotten in on the chilli oil for dry-eye fun. *lesigh*)