Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"It is the source of myth, of magic, of fantasy," he said at the conference. Such thinking affects the observer's sighting of a UFO and "prevents him from making an objective report."
Other psychic possibilities involved in UFO sightings, Grinspoon said, could be classified as disorders of perception and thought, including illusions, delusions, and hallucinations.
Grinspoon said that the forms of reported sightings often involve "two of the major symbols of both the conscious and the unconscious mind-the breast and the penis. "The relevance of these observations becomes clear," he said, "when we look at the typical pictures of the UFO's. They are...
Speaking of types of mental disturbances conceivably involved in UFO sightings, Grinspoon said that ambulatory schizophrenia was one category in which "one might expect unreliable reports of UFO sightings," explaining that people who suffer from this ill-ness frequently have hallucinations.
Another type of psychosis mentioned, folie a ducx, is a mental disorder in which one of two intimately associated people develops certain mental symptoms, particularly delusions, which are then communicated to and accepted by the second person.