Medicine: Memories Before Birth?

Up to now, most psychiatrists practicing analysis have been content to stop their dredging of the past at early childhood. They have left to Dianetician L. Ron Hubbard the primordial darkness extending back from birth to conception and still further back to such matters as "memory" of life on other planets (TIME, Dec. 22). Now a serious British psychiatrist, who conducts much analysis under hypnosis, seriously claims to have dredged his patients' memories back to the womb. And though Dr. Denys E. R. Kelsey's report and conclusions seem fantastic to the layman, London's reputable Journal of Mental Science prints them with...

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