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This report offers corroborative evidence of one phase of telepathy as it may be seen in clinical psychoanalysis.
The observation in question, as enunciated by Eisenbud (1), is 'The telepathic episode is a function not only of the repression of emotionally charged material by the patient, but of the repression of similar or related emotionally charged material by the analyst as well'. This writer gives credit for the discovery also to Hollós (2) and Servadio (3).
The above statement has been confirmed by a series of recent experiences of my own. These started when my interest was roused by hearing a paper on telepathy read, and I wished that I too might participate in telepathic happenings. Upon discovering the motives that led to this wish, I suppressed it.
Three days later a new acquaintance came unexpectedly to see me. During his stay he told me that he had written several books and had been behind enemy lines during the war, both as a fugitive and as a prisoner.
Prisoners of war are conventionally considered with compassion and guilt because they suffered while others more fortunate did not. For me the phrase had associations with my family, connected with ideas usually repressed. Aware of my psychic discomfort, I brushed aside the memories which the words 'a prisoner of war' roused in me. I called my guest 'Major' until I discovered that he was a colonel. The discourtesy was slight and entirely accidental but gave me more concern than was warranted, unless it expressed an impulse which I could not happily admit to myself. I tried to consider my miscalling on a purely superficial basis and not to let it disturb me.
A few hours later my patient A had a dream which he told me the following day.