Word: macked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon (Deputy Picture Editors); Robert B. Stevens (Associate Picture Editor); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Cristina T. Scalet, Nancy Smith-Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau...
...what of the surprising consistency of the stories Mack elicited? "Dr. Mack is ignoring the high level of suggestion and imagery that surrounds the way in which he deals with these people," says Fred Frankel, 70, a Harvard Medical School professor and psychiatrist in chief at Boston's Beth Israel hospital. "Hypnosis helps you regain memories that you would not have otherwise recalled . . . But some will be true, and some will be false. The expectation of the hypnotist and the expectation of the person who is going to be hypnotized can influence the result...
Confronted by TIME with the news that Bassett had faked her abduction experience, Mack declined to discuss her case, though he hinted that he had doubts about her reliability. (Hers is not among the 13 case histories recounted in his book, but tapes of her sessions leave little doubt that Mack took her seriously.) In general, he insists, there is no evidence that the core memories he elicited are distorted. "When ((the subjects)) talk about this -- and other people in the room with me have witnessed this, including several psychiatrists -- the experience is that of a person who has been...
...Mack's view of the UFO phenomenon reflects a larger philosophical stance that rejects "rational" scientific explanations and embraces a hazier New Age reality. "I don't know why there's such a zeal to find a conventional physical explanation," he says. "I don't know why people have such trouble simply accepting the fact that something unusual is going on here . . . We have lost the faculties to know other realities that other cultures still can know. The world no longer has spirit, has soul, is sacred. We've lost all that ability to know a world beyond the physical...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon (Deputy Picture Editors); Robert B. Stevens (Associate Picture Editor); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Cristina T. Scalet, Nancy Smith-Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau...