Thomas Walker Mitchell

{{Short description|British physician and parapsychologist (1869–1944)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

File:Thomas Walker Mitchell psychical researcher.png

Thomas Walker Mitchell (1869–1944) most commonly referred to as T. W. Mitchell was a British physician and psychical researcher.Wright, Maurice B. (1945). Thomas Walker Mitchell, 1869–1944. British Journal of Medical Psychology 20: 203-206. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained an M.D. in 1906.{{Cite journal|last=Mitchell|first=Thomas Walker|date=1906|title=Amnesia verbalis and other disorders of memory|hdl=1842/25850 |url=https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/25850|language=en}}

Mitchell wrote on medical psychology and psychopathology. He was a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Psycho-Medical Society. He was also member of the Society for Psychical Research and was elected as President for the year 1922. He edited the British Journal of Medical Psychology.

He studied cases of hypnosis and somnambulism.Review: Psychology And Psychical Research. Reviewed Work: Medical Psychology And Psychical Research by T. W. Mitchell. The British Medical Journal. Vol. 1, No. 3250 (Apr. 14, 1923), p. 635.Hall, G. Stanley. (1923). Reviewed Work: The Psychology of Medicine by T. W. Mitchell. The American Journal of Psychology. Vol. 34, No. 2. p. 298.

Publications

  • [https://archive.org/details/psychologyofmedi00mitcuoft The Psychology of Medicine] (1921)
  • [https://archive.org/details/medicalpsycholog00mitcuoft Medical Psychology and Psychical Research] (1922)
  • [https://archive.org/details/problemsinpsycho032401mbp Problems in Psychopathology] (1927)Gordon, R. G. (1928). Review of T. W. Mitchell 'Problems in Psychopathology. Journal of Philosophical Studies 3: 122-123.

References