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...century was fairly launched by Freud's probing of those psychic forces. But Freud's was only half a revolution. In the second half of the century, the probing of madness has entered a different phase. The new psychiatry, as Jules Henry writes, involves "a fundamental alteration in the approach to the patient-from seeing him alone, to seeing him together with his family; from perceiving him as sick, to perceiving him as a member of a sick family...
...counterinsurgency programs in Southeast Asia, explosives technology, chemical and bacteriological warfare and anti-ballistic-missile systems. For its services, SRI last year earned revenues of $70 million. Last week it became apparent that in addition to its other projects, the institute has been seriously investigating the so-called psychic powers of a questionable nightclub magician...
...alone in investigating psychic phenomena. Indeed, the persistence and growth of that search in an age of science is testimony to the vitality of the concept. But until psychic researchers produce something more than nebulous evidence, skeptics will continue to scoff...
...last December. Two men, it seems, had been demonstrating strange and wondrous powers for SRI researchers. One of the men, a 25-year-old Israeli named Uri Geller, was apparently able to communicate by telepathy, detect and describe objects completely hidden from view, and distort metal implements with his psychic energy. The word among staff members was that SRI President Charles Anderson, who at first had opposed the project, changed his mind after witnessing demonstrations by Geller...
...peace in Viet Nam may soon be almost as controversial as the war once was. After 46,000 Americans died in combat, after the nation bled $135 billion from its treasure and suffered a psychic dislocation as severe as any since the Civil War, the President would ask taxpayers for billions of dollars more. Much of it would go as a transfusion for the people and the regime that U.S. B-52s were bombing just a few weeks ago at Christmastime...