Obsession: Psychic Forces and Evil in the Causation of Disease

by Arthur Guidham

This book is a new approach to the understanding of neurotic disease. In the past the latter has been the subject of much heavy theorizing. To the author, a consultant psychiatrist of forty years standing the explanation is more fundamental and essentially simpler. Many of those who reveal obsessional symptoms which are best exemplified by the pointless repetition of simple actions like turning off bath taps, are suffering from repression of their psychic gifts. Obsessional states are a direct protective reflex following the perception of evil. this is first revealed in the night terrors and involuntary tics of childhood. The victims of obsessional states are often markedly psychic. Many are clairvoyant and telepathic. Tgheir obsessional tendencies are related to the repression of these gifts. A number have far memory back to, and preceding birth. These are the two central themes in this book.

186 pages, Hardcover

First published January 25, 1972