Richard Reichbart

On this website,  one can find many aspects of my written work as well as my availability as a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst who treats people of all ages, including children, in Northern New Jersey. My most current written work — rather different than what one might expect from a psychoanalyst — is about psychic phenomena and the way they (particularly telepathy and precognition) appear in our dreams and in our daily lives. I do not set out to “prove” the existence of psychic phenomena.

For that  I refer the reader to a variety of other sources. What I do try to do is challenge the reader by exploring, often through a psychoanalytic lens, how “psi phenomena” appear in literature, in cultures, in daily life and in clinical psychoanalysis.  Much of the material that I present is not generally known — from my speculations on the relationship between magic and psi, with an emphasis on shamanistic sleight-of-hand practices, to my discussion of the Navajo hand trembler or to my analysis of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina — or is entirely new, such as my focus on Hamlet as a parapsychologist or to a different view of Freud’s the Forsyth Case.  All of these examples come back to what we all experience in daily life, most clearly revealed by patients in psychoanalysis; and how it affects all of us often unknowingly.  For those of you whose interest is piqued and who are inclined to step through the door into this arena, I hope you will find much that is new and exciting here.

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