Abstract

Draws an analogy between psychotherapy and parapsychology and indicates common historical roots and similar interests and concepts held by the people who did the cornerstone work in both areas. There is phenomenological commonality in both endeavors: the attempt to push back the boundaries of what is known and draw forth something that is unknown but important and desired. Many apparently psychic experiences have been described within the context of psychotherapy, and several conditions and circumstances that have been found to be especially psi-conducive in the research literature bear close resemblance to similar procedures and conditions relied on by many psychotherapists. It is suggested that more conscious attention to what is known in psychotherapy about experiential growth and self-discovery could add to the study of psi phenomena.