Gillespie, William Hewitt (1905 )
British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who also wrote on
parapsychological subjects. Gillespie was born August 6, 1905,
at Pei-Tai-Ho, China. He later attended the Universities of
Edinburgh (Scotland) and Vienna. He held important positions
in the LCC Mental Hospitals Service, London (193136);
the Institute of Psychiatry (194470); and the London Clinic of
Psychoanalysis (194447) and was appointed to the Maudsley
Hospital, London in 1936, where after a long tenure he was
named emeritus physician. During his career he wrote a number
of articles on parapsychological subjects.
Sources
Gillespie, William H. Extrasensory Elements in Dream Interpretation.
Psychoanalysis and the Occult. Edited by George
Devereaux. New York International Universities Press, 1953.
