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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1909, Vol. 3: Section "B" Of the American Institute for Scientific Research; Parts I-II
I therefore advised Mr. Thompson to abandon the paint ing into which his impulses and hallucinations had led him and to do all he could to suppress the tendency. I have since learned that 'it is probably not best to do so in such cases But without dwelling on the therapeutic aspect of such in stances, as later investigation may prove to be advisable or not, I can only allude to my opinion to Show how I felt about the phenomena and that I saw no interest for supernormal psychology in the case, at least in so far as evidence and corroboration could show. These left me without any other interest or importance in the phenomena than the usual place of them. In abnormal psychology. I could only counsel the man to go back to his trade of goldsmith and to try to overcome the impulse to do what seemed to me impossible of success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
