Xenoglossy & the psychiatrists

Language Log 2013-06-03

Summary:

I just learned that the American Psychiatric Association, at their annual meeting last month, had a Media Workshop on "A Case of Xenoglossy and the Nature of Consciousness", where the organizer, a psychiatrist named Samuel Sandweiss, claimed that he had a patient back in 1983 (!) who spontaneously uttered profound philosophical remarks in a mixture [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4672

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Sally Thomason

Date tagged:

06/03/2013, 15:20

Date published:

06/03/2013, 13:57