Word: grinspoon
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...degree of controversy which surrounds the subject," said Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, suggests an extraordinary appeal, an emotionalism which far exceeds the usual involvement in scientific subjects in our scientific...
...Grinspoon collaborated on the report with Dr. Alan D. Persky, clinical instructor in Psychiatry...
...This report was intended as one possible explanation for some of the sightings," Grinspoon said last night. "It is clear that some things have been seen-but the 'ufologists' are not taking into account the possibility that some of these reports may be by disturbed people, or by normal people experiencing certain nonpathological psychological states...
...psychiatrists initially suspected, Grinspoon said, that a significant fraction of the sightings were related to the sighter's "primary process thinking," a kind of thought process more prominently exhibited in persons with certain kinds of mental disturbances...
Other psychic possibilities involved in UFO sightings, Grinspoon said, could be classified as disorders of perception and thought, including illusions, delusions, and hallucinations...