Thomas Walker Mitchell psychical researcher

Thomas Walker Mitchell (1869–1944) most commonly referred to as T. W. Mitchell was a British physician and

psychical researcher Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near ...

.Wright, Maurice B. (1945). ''Thomas Walker Mitchell, 1869–1944''. '' British Journal of Medical Psychology'' 20: 203-206. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained an M.D. in 1906. Mitchell wrote on medical psychology and

psychopathology Psychopathology is the study of abnormal cognition, behaviour, and experiences which differs according to social norms and rests upon a number of constructs that are deemed to be the social norm at any particular era. Biological psychopatholo ...

. He was a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Psycho-Medical Society. He was also member of the Society for Psychical Research and was elected as President for the year 1922. He edited the British Journal of Medical Psychology. He studied cases of hypnosis and somnambulism.

Publications

''The Psychology of Medicine''
(1921)
''Medical Psychology and Psychical Research''
(1922) *
Problems in Psychopathology
' (1927)Gordon, R. G. (1928). ''Review of T. W. Mitchell 'Problems in Psychopathology''. ''

Journal of Philosophical Studies ''Philosophy'' is the scholarly journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. It is designed to be intelligible to the non-specialist reader and has been in continuous publication since 1926. It is published by Cambridge University Press and is c ...

'' 3: 122-123.

References

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