In the early 20th century, someone like Lon Nitschke might have been "The Wizard of Oz's" Professor Marvel, a healer with a wagonload of medicines he sells from town to town.
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In a recent discussion of news that creationist-allied campaigners are suggesting neuroscience implies a non-materialist (e.g. soul-based) human existence, I mentioned this was old news as Nobel-prize winning physiologist John Eccles had argued much the same in the early 20th century. However, I recently got back to reading The Discovery of the Unconscious, Ellenberger's huge book and remarkably thorough history of psychodynamic psychiatry, and discovered this gem on p161 that mentions a simil
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