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The Psychic Wound: Trauma, Memory, and the Haunting Mind
The Psychic Trauma, Memory, and the Haunting Mind
By Dr James Garrett
Not all hauntings come from the dead. Some rise from the wounded mind.
In this revelatory fusion of psychological insight and compassionate investigation, Dr James Garrett—parapsychologist, psychiatric nurse, and minister—guides us through the shadowed terrain where trauma masquerades as the paranormal. From whispered voices in grief-stricken bedrooms to spectral figures born of dissociation, this book peels back the veil not to chase ghosts, but to understand why we create them.
Drawing from clinical case studies, historical analysis, and cultural critique, The Psychic Wound explores how the mind externalises pain, how memory fractures into symbol, and why our deepest wounds so often return in the language of haunting. Sleep paralysis, poltergeist phenomena, possession, childhood “visitations”—none are dismissed. But each is translated through the lens of lived experience and psychological need.
This is not a debunker's book. Nor is it a believer’s tale.
It is a reckoning.
The Psychic Wound is essential reading for anyone working in mental health, paranormal research, spiritual care—or for those who have ever wondered if the presence in the room was not a ghost, but a part of themselves asking to be heard.
By Dr James Garrett
Not all hauntings come from the dead. Some rise from the wounded mind.
In this revelatory fusion of psychological insight and compassionate investigation, Dr James Garrett—parapsychologist, psychiatric nurse, and minister—guides us through the shadowed terrain where trauma masquerades as the paranormal. From whispered voices in grief-stricken bedrooms to spectral figures born of dissociation, this book peels back the veil not to chase ghosts, but to understand why we create them.
Drawing from clinical case studies, historical analysis, and cultural critique, The Psychic Wound explores how the mind externalises pain, how memory fractures into symbol, and why our deepest wounds so often return in the language of haunting. Sleep paralysis, poltergeist phenomena, possession, childhood “visitations”—none are dismissed. But each is translated through the lens of lived experience and psychological need.
This is not a debunker's book. Nor is it a believer’s tale.
It is a reckoning.
The Psychic Wound is essential reading for anyone working in mental health, paranormal research, spiritual care—or for those who have ever wondered if the presence in the room was not a ghost, but a part of themselves asking to be heard.
190 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2025
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