Booth, Gotthard (1899-?)

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Booth, Gotthard (1899-?)

Born May 26, 1899, in Nuremberg, Germany, Booth became a psychiatrist and moved to New York in 1935 to assume duties as a consultant at the General Theological Seminary, New York, and adviser to the Program in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, New York. In the field of parapsychology he took a special interest in spontaneous psi phenomena occurring in psychotherapy, spiritual healing, and psi phenomena in climbing plants, on which he published numerous articles.

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