Greenbank, Richard Kelly (1924-)
Greenbank, Richard Kelly (1924-)
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who wrote on parapsychology. He was born April 23, 1924, in Washington, D.C., and studied at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond; and the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Before entering private practice as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in 1955, he was a resident psychiatrist at Norways Foundation Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana, and a resident in psychiatry and research fellow at Jefferson Medical School and Hospital, Philadelphia. In 1968 he became chief of section of the Department of Psychiatry, Philadelphia General Hospital. In addition to many articles on psychiatric subjects, including hypnosis and the psychotherapy of schizophrenia, Greenbank wrote various articles on parapsychological subjects.
Sources:
Greenbank, Richard K. "Allegedly Prophetic Dreams in Psychotherapeutic Treatment." International Journal of Parapsychology (Summer 1960).
——. "Communication of Suicidal Thoughts." Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal (July 1957).
——. "My Wolf." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (May 1957).
——. "Unexplained Mental Phenomena Regarding Suicide." Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases (January 1957).
Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.