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PubMed1989

Empathy, diversity, and telepathy in mother-daughter dyads: an empirical investigation utilizing Rogers' conceptual framework.

The purpose of this study was to examine empathy, diversity, and telepathy in natural mother-daughter dyads. The investigation was conceptualized and conducted according to the concepts and principles of the Rogerian Science of Unitary Human Beings. The sample for this descriptive study consisted of 180 volunteer mother-daughter dyads; the mother served as the receiver and the child as sender of telepathic messages. Empathy and diversity were expected to be related to telepathy levels. Results indicated that one form of empathy (personal distress) and diversity were significantly (p less than .05) related to telepathy. When the components of the diversity score were further examined, only those subjects who were moderately differentiated and mobile demonstrated significant telepathy scores. Multiple regression analysis showed that 6% of the variance in telepathy was accounted for by diversity and empathy. Findings added to what is known about living systems that manifest negentrophy and evolve toward increasing diversity.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

Telepathy in mental illness: deluge or delusion?

The belief that one can read others' minds has long been considered a symptom of psychosis, despite reports in the parapsychological literature of veridical telepathy. All patients admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit were screened for paranormal beliefs, and those claiming telepathic abilities were tested in a free-response ESP task. Eighteen per cent of the inpatient population claimed telepathic abilities; of the nine patients who completed the task, none performed above chance expectations. Higher frequencies of paranormal experiences than those reported previously in the psychiatric literature were attributed to the context of the study. Schneider's first rank symptoms and a belief in telepathy discriminated schizophrenics more reliably than other paranormal experiences. Possible psychodynamics of delusions of telepathy were discussed in view of the predominance of women and younger men reporting them, as were the possible effects of such research on patients' delusions.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Telepathy in psychoanalysis: an instance.

A case is presented of a patient telepathically perceiving a stressful event in the analyst's life. Evidence for this is a dream of the patient that embodied a similar content and affect. It is hypothesized that the patient's telepathic ability derived from his self-effacing character trend, which determines an act of perception.

Adult↗
PubMed1990

Nonrashes. 6. Telepathic pruritus.

We report the case of a paranoid schizophrenic man who suffered from the delusion that two other men used mental telepathy to make him itch over a period of thirteen years. To our knowledge, this is the first report of "telepathic pruritus."

Delusions↗
PubMed1989

[A telepathic phenomenon].

The phenomenon of telepathy in the treatment process is explained by reference to the subliminal theory of dreams of psychoanalysis and to certain aspects of experimental dream research. The author highlights certain derivable consequences regarding the interpretive process.

Adult↗
PubMed1990

The history of memory arts.

Ancient humans, lacking devices to store large amounts of information, invented and developed a system of mnemonics which evolved and passed to modern times. The mnemonics, collectively known as the Ancient Art of Memory, were discovered in 447 BC by a Greek poet, Simonides, and were adequately described by Cicero, Quintilian, and Pliny. These arts fell into neglect after Alaric sacked Rome in 410 AD, but were subsequently revived in 1323 by Saint Thomas Aquinas, who transferred them from a division of rhetoric to ethics and used them to recall Catholic doctrine and versions of biblical history. In 1540 Saint Ignatius Loyola used mnemonic images to affirm the faith with his newly formed Society of Jesus and tried to convert the Ming dynasty in China by teaching these memory skills to Chinese nobles. Today, the ancient memory arts have applications in pilot training, gambling, mentalism and telepathy demonstrations, and may have a role in the rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients. Objective testing confirms that with the use of these memory skills, recall is increased, at least 10-fold, and the memory deficits of proactive and retroactive inhibition do not exist.

History, 19th Century↗
PubMed1991

Charles Robert Richet and some milestones in the history of allergies.

French medicine in the second half of the 19th century includes the seminal contributions of Claude Bernard, Lasèque, Trousseau, Jaccoud and Charcot, and counted among the most notable representatives is Professor Charles Robert Richet, Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine and Physiology in 1913, for the discovery of anaphylaxis. With his versatile personality he was involved in many different fields. His investigative work included diverse themes such as respiration, digestion, epilepsy and the regulation of body heat. To him we owe three new words, and as such, three new concepts: anaphylaxis, polypnea and zoomotherapy. Richet also excelled as a bacteriologist, pathologist, medical statistician, poet, novelist, playwright, historian, psychologist, parapsychologist, pacifist, philosopher and bibliographer. Especially interested in telepathy, and in general, extrasensory perception phenomena, he contributed decisively to the creation of a new science, metapsychics.

Allergy and Immunology↗
PubMed1991

Sixth sense.

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PubMed1975

Cerebral localization and the psi syndrome.

On trying to correlate the psi syndrome with a neural substrate, it is necessary to distinguish between spontaneous, "macropsychological" and experimenta, "micropsychological" incidents of the card-calling type. On comparing telepathic drawings with drawings made by brain-injured patients suffering from optical agnosia, the identical tendency to distortion and disorganization of the target materials can be discerned. It suggests that the telepathic subject is "agnostic" in relation to psi impressions, and that his central processing takes place in the right rather than the left hemisphere. The capricious nature of extrasensory perception (ESP) responses of the card-calling type points to fluctuations in the reticular and limbic midbrain system in warding off the intrusion into awareness are subliminal or irrelevant perceptions from the outside world.

Agnosia↗
PubMed1976

Associative illness among aboriginals.

Associative mental illness occurring in close relatives is described from Numbulwar and Yirrkala Missions, two Aboriginal communities in Eastern Arnhem Land. Since it is a clear example of the influence of culture on mental illness, these factors which facilitate the production of the illnesses are examined. They are (1) cross-identification between members of the clan group; (2) the assumption that mental illness is caused by sorcery which acts to detriment of all the relatives in a clan group, not only on the individual; (3) the belief that mental experiences in general are not private and may be shared by close relatives.

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