LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

coordinator and Dr. Howard Rome as moderator. The study of psychical or psi phenomena has recently won the nod of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Parapsychological Association has been admitted to member-ship, and psychic research is thus well on its way toward in-tegration with other behavioral sciences. A number of university centers in this country and abroad are engaged in methodical investigations of telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and attempts at unorthodox heal-ing. The general public, broad segments of inquiring youth, and many of our patients are concerned with psi phenomena but grope in the dark or turn for guidance to charlatans and ama-teur investigators. Some of the research done by experimental parapsychologists is extremely relevant to clinical psychiatry, but most psychiatrists are unfamiliar with it. Or else genuine ps