Psychic Realm Vol 2 No 86 October 1954 [ Spiritualist Newspaper , Three Faces Of Eve ]
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An Issue of The Scarce Spiritualist Newspaper Psychic Realm Featuring Mediumship Messages and An Occult Interpretation of The Psychiatric Case Which Inspired The Three Faces Of Eve
Thompson, Ernest. Psychic Realm. Vol 2. No 86. Psychic Realm. Manchester, U.K. Wednesday 20 October, 1954.
Promoted with the tagline “The Spiritualist Newspaper with a Spiritual Mission”, this issue of Psychic Realm features the front page story “Three Spirits In One Body”, a reference to the real life case of Christine Costner Sizemore that would inspire the 1957 book and film The Three Faces of Eve.
Reporting on Dr Corbett Thigpen of the Medical College of Georgia’s 1954 research paper dealing with Sizemore’s treatment, “A case of multiple personality” from The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the unsigned article (likely written by Psychic Realm founding editor Ernest Thompson) reframes the patient’s separate personalities or identities as possessing spirits occupying a single body. It’s not without irony that Thigpen himself would come under fire for his controversial choice to publish a fictionalized account of Sizemore’s case as The Three Faces of Eve, whose film adaptation of the same year won Joanne Woodward the Academy Award for Best Actress. (Sizemore would later claim that she signed away the rights to her story to her doctors and 20th Century Fox without adequate legal representation).
In addition, this issue includes coverage of Mithraism in Ancient London following the discovery of a temple site in a WWII bomb crater, and mediumship messages on the nature of the afterlife from H.N. Norman, as well as the “Star of Light” speaking through Lucille Liang, and noted medium Winifred Moyes speaking “on behalf” of the spirit Zodiac (still an active channel to this day).
The founder and editor of Psychic Realm, Ernest Thompson, was a prolific author on spiritualist topics including the books, Science An Aid To Spiritualism (1946), History of Modern of Spiritualism and Its Scientific Foundations (1948), and Spiritualism in the Evolution of Religions (1953).
As of February 2024, OCLC lists unspecified 1953 volumes of Psychic Realm held at the British Library but no other institutional holdings.
[329]-336pp. Newsprint folio. Folded in half with wear and small split at spine fold seam. Small pencil X to front top fore corner. Top fore corners creased. Minor tear to first page top edge. Wear to fore edge of pg 331. Good.
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