The Paranormal Surrounds Us

Richard Reichbart is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Positions held include past president of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City; past president of the New Jersey Society for Psychoanalysis; fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association; member of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and member of the Parapsychological Association.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword by Mikita Brottman

Introduction

I. Psi Phenomena in Western Literature

One • Hamlet: The Tragedy of a Parapsychologist

Two • Psi Phenomena and Tolstoy

Three • E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India: Psi, Culture and Causality

Four • G.K. Chesterton and Ingmar Bergman: Artists of Magic and Psi Whose Intimations Proved Too Real

Five • Telepathy and Psychic Connections in James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Window into the Psychoanalyst’s World

II. Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis

Six • Psi and Psychoanalysis I: Rescuing Sisyphus

Seven • Psi and Psychoanalysis II: Rescuing Sisyphus Today

III. Psi Phenomena and Culture

Eight • The Navajo Hand Trembler: Multiple Roles of the Psychic in Traditional Navajo Society

Nine • Magic and Psi: Some Speculations on Their Relationship

Ten • Western Law and Parapsychology

Conclusion

Afterword by Michael Prescott

Appendix A: Jule Eisenbud: Explorer

Appendix B: Correspondence with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer

Appendix C: A Cloak and Dagger Psi Mystery Story

Glossary

Index