Thirty Years Among the Dead

About this book

A patient hears threatening voices, and Carl A. Wickland believes the source may be a disembodied spirit. His medical practice becomes the setting for a series of alleged conversations with the dead.

Thirty Years Among the Dead records Wickland's spirit-obsession theory and the purported messages obtained through his wife Anna's mediumship. Its accounts of distress and treatment reflect a historical belief system that should never replace modern psychiatric care. The most unsettling aspect is the ease with which painful human experiences are assigned an invisible cause, then organised into a confident explanation of suffering.