Analysts Ponder Presence Of ESP and How It Works
Abstract
Analysts Ponder Presence Of ESP and How It WorksJoan Arehart-Treichel Some psychoanalysts wonder whether they have experienced ESP with patients. They also wonder how it might work. Several years ago, moviegoers may recall, something quite extraordinary occurred in a gracious brown mansion in Philadelphia. A young boy attending a birthday party in the mansion had a paranormal experience that terrified him. Yes, this was a scene from the movie âThe Sixth Sense,â and the mansion where the scene was shot still stands on the corner of 22nd and Green streets in Philadelphia. Thus, it is probably appropriate that only a few blocks away from this mansion some psychoanalysts got together recently to discuss ESP. They were attending the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, which was held in Philadelphiaâs Wyndham Plaza Hotel in May. The discussion group, titled âIntuition, Unconscious Communication, and Thought Transference,â got off to an awkward start. Some 30 psychoanalysts trooped into a large room in the hotel that had been designated for the group and sat down at the long banquet table in the room. One participant quipped that if they were going to be able to communicate with each other under such