Telepathy and Medical Psychology

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First published in 1947, an increasing mass of evidence compiled in past years had made the occurrence of telepathy and related phenomena an established fact. However, medical psychology refused to acknowledge their existence and to reconcile them with their systems of thought, this book was the first serious attempt in this direction

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Preface. Introduction Gardner Murphy Part I: Outline of a Working Hypothesis 1. Telepathy and Primitive Mentality 2. What are the Facts? 3. How Does it Work? 4. Comparative Analysis and the Scatter Theory Part II: Fresh Light on Borderland Psychology 5. Telepathy in Dreams 6. Telepathy in the Psychoanalytic Situation 7. Telepathy and Mediumistic Trance Part III: Fresh Light on Psychiatry 8. Telepathy and Paranoia 9. Telepathy and Schizophrenic Deterioration 10. The Telepathy Hypothesis and the Clinical Picture of Schizophrenia Part IV: Fresh Light on Character and Personality 11. Portrait of a Psychic, Case 1 12. Portrait of a Psychic, Case 2 13. Personality Restated. Conclusions. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.