Gillespie, William Hewitt (1905-)

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Gillespie, William Hewitt (1905-)

British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who also wrote on parapsychological subjects. Gillespie was born August 6, 1905, at Pei-Tai-Ho, China. He later attended the Universities of Edinburgh (Scotland) and Vienna. He held important positions in the LCC Mental Hospitals Service, London (1931-36); the Institute of Psychiatry (1944-70); and the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis (1944-47) and was appointed to the Maudsley Hospital, London in 1936, where after a long tenure he was named emeritus physician. During his career he wrote a number of articles on parapsychological subjects.

Sources:

Gillespie, William H. "Extrasensory Elements in Dream Interpretation." Psychoanalysis and the Occult. Edited by George Devereaux. New York: International Universities Press, 1953.

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