Title: The ESP experience : a psychiatric validation /
Authors: Ehrenwald, Jan, 1900-1988
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Parapsychology.; Parapsychology
Abstract: A respected psychiatrist explores the extent to which modern-day psychiatry confirms the existence of extrasensory perception.
Contents: pt. 1. Origins. Parapsychology: from magic to science. Parent-child symbiosis: cradle of ESP. The decline of magic and the metamorphosis of witches. The neurotic mother: witch of our time? -- pt. 2. Psychodynamics. Telepathy in the psychoanalytic situation: variations on the symbiotic theme. The four faces of psi in psychotherapy. Predisposing and conditioning factors. Drugs, dreams, and ESP. Precognition or self-fulfillment in dreams? Precognition or self-fulfillment in prophecy and myth? -- pt. 3. Psychopathology. Schizophrenia and psi pollution. Possession and exorcism: delusion shared and compounded? Parent-child symbiosis and the revolt of the poltergeist. The witch-mother and the children of Salem. Out-of-the-body experiences and the denial of death. Hitler: shaman, schizophrenic, or medium? Uri Geller and Matthew Manning: from spoon bending to mind bending -- pt. 4. Theory. Science and the seven dragons: a note on theory making. The extension hypothesis. Personality: open or closed? an exercise in mind stretching. Psi phenomena in search of a neural foothold. The psi syndrome and modern man against psi. Survival after death? Altered states of consciousness and the existential shift -- pt. 5. Uses. Varieties of unorthodox healing. Psi, placebo, and the grin of the cheshire cat. Space, time, and Picasso. What is it for?