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The ESP experience : a psychiatric validation

Author: Jan Ehrenwald
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©1978.
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Ehrenwald, Jan, 1900-1988.
ESP experience.
New York : Basic Books, c1978
(OCoLC)558168570
Online version:
Ehrenwald, Jan, 1900-1988.
ESP experience.
New York : Basic Books, c1978
(OCoLC)607785755
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jan Ehrenwald
ISBN: 0465020569 9780465020560
OCLC Number: 3658376
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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?
Responsibility: Jan Ehrenwald.

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