Mitchell, T(homas) W(alker) (1869-1944)
Mitchell, T(homas) W(alker) (1869-1944)
British physician, psychologist, and psychic researcher. He was born January 18, 1869, in Avock, Ross-shire, Scotland, and attended the University of Edinburgh (M.B., C.M., 1890; M.D., 1906). He wrote several books and was the editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology (1920-35).
His favorite topics in psychic research related to hypnosis and multiple personality. He played a prominent part in the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London, and was its president in 1921, the first physician so selected. He was a long-term member of its council (1909-44) and was secretary of the medical section (1911-18). His paper "Phenomena of Mediumistic Trance" was read to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1927.
Sources:
Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
Mitchell, T. W. "The Appreciation of Time by Somnambules." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (1908-09).
——. The Psychology of Medicine. New York: R. M. McBride, 1922.
——. Psychology and the Sciences. Edited by William Brown. London: A & C Black Ltd., 1924.
——. "Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis." Proceedings of the Society for Psychial Research (1912-13).
——. "A Study in Hysteria and Multiple Personality." Proceedings of the Society for Psychial Research (1912-13).
Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.