Carl Wickland

Carl August Wickland ( born 1 February 1861 in Sweden, † November 13, 1945 ) was a psychiatrist and researcher of the paranormal. He wandered out early in the United States, where he studied general medicine, specializing in mental illness. Following the guidance of the National Psychopathic Institute of Chicago in 1918, he founded the National Psychological Institute. Since 1924, he has published books on " paranormal psychology."

Life

Wickland 1880 emigrated to the USA in 1896 and married Anna W. Anderson. In 1900 he graduated from the Durham Medical College in Chicago and became a general practitioner, who specialized in the study of mental illness.

1909 Dr. Wickland became chief psychiatrist of the National Psychopathic Institute of Chicago. In 1918 he moved to Los Angeles and founded the National Psychological Institute, a nonprofit corporation for psychological research. The Institute had a sanatorium, in which up to ten patients could be treated.

1924 Wickland wrote in collaboration with his assistant Nelle Watts, Celia and Orlando Goerz the book Thirty Years Among the Dead ( German Thirty years among the dead ), which he describes in detail his experiences with paranormal psychology.

1934 published Wickland another book called Gateway of Understanding ( German Goal of the understanding ).

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• Literature ( 20th century)
• Born in 1861
• Died in 1945
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