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Sort Desciption: return to the other half of my career the conventional one of research in psy-. chiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Then to the astonishment of a great ...
Content Inside: ESSAY Half a Career with the Paranormal I AN S TEVENSON Department of Psychiatric Medicine University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville VA USA To begin with a definition the word paranormal means communication without the currently recognized sensory processes; it may also refer to physical move- ments without the recognized physical processes. For centuries phenomena now described as paranormal occurred and were described. Most historians of the subject agree however that systematic inquiries about such occurrences did not begin until 1882 when the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London. Its founders openly stated their intention to investigate unusual phenomena. I am a latecomer in this field because my activity in it did not begin until I had already established myself in conventional psychiatry. I had had training in that specialty and in psychosomatic medicine. My research and training enabled me to advance in academic positions; in 1957 I was appointed professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia. How I reached that position requires a short digression. From birth on I suffered from repeated bouts of bronchitis and spent much time in bed. The illnesses held me back but I read a great deal and my succoring mother kept restoring my health. I have an unusually retentive memory and in phases of good health I jumped ahead of my peers scholastically. Professors like superior students and I became a favorite of some at McGill University. After I had recovered from several bouts of pneumonia one of the professors advised me to leave the cold of Canada for the warmth of Arizona. While in Arizona I somehow learned to improve my health. Thereafter I resumed a normal upward path in training and academic placement. On the way up I acquired some reputation as a maverick. This epithet seemed appropriate for someone who questioned the assumption held then dogmatically by most psychiatrists t ...
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