Dr. Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992) was an English physician, psychiatrist, novelist, and writer on the Cathar sect, alternative medicine, ESP and reincarnation.
Biography[edit]
He was born in Workington,
Cumbria, into a working-class family of Huguenot descent—his father was
a steel worker—yet due to the family's choice to sacrifice the
secondary education of his sisters he was able to attend grammar school
and ultimately Oxford University. While pursuing a career in psychiatry,
Guirdham was also a tireless writer, supported by the nearly full-time
secretarial and editing assistance of his wife Mary. After writing a
couple of wartime thrillers he became increasingly interested in
esoteric history and reincarnation, and moved into non-fiction. His
books The Lake and the Castle (1976) and The Great Heresy: The History and Beliefs of the Cathars (1977) describe the Cathar faith. The Theory of Disease (1957), mentioned in Brian Inglis' History of Medicine,
offered an early alternative perspective on mental illness and
personality, including some ideas later taken up by the anti-psychiatry
movement. He also wrote on Sigmund Freud and C.G.Jung. Most successful, however, were his books on reincarnation, notably The Cathars and Reincarnation
which were translated into several languages and won him a loyal
audience of enthusiasts and a significant role within British studies of
the paranormal and alternative perspectives on mental illness.
See also[edit]
Reincarnation research
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Guirdham, Arthur |
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1905 |
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1992 |
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