Berthold E. Schwarz
Berthold Eric Schwarz, MD was an American psychiatrist and a researcher in spirituality and paranormal activity.
Early life and education
Schwarz was born in Jersey City, New Jersey; his father, Berthold T.D. Schwarz, was a physician, and his mother, Thyra Schwarz, was a nurse.He graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1945, and from Dartmouth Medical School and New York University School of Medicine in 1950 with an MD. He interned at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, New Hampshire, from July 1950 to June 1951, and completed a Fellowship in Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, from 1951 to 1955. He earned an MS in psychiatry at the University of Minnesota in 1957.
Career
Schwarz was certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in March 1957. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.He was in private practice for 45 years, in Montclair, New Jersey, from 1958 to 1982, and in Vero Beach, Florida, from 1982 to 2004.
Schwarz wrote more than 185 scholarly or scientific articles, many focusing on psychiatric, psychoanalytic and electrophysiological subjects. He had a strong lifelong interest in paranormal research, and was a member of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies and a Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research. He wrote frequently for the Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, and many of his books deal with paranormal research. His books include:
- A Psychiatrist Looks at ESP
- The Jacques Romano Story
- Everyday Life: Parent-Child Telepathy
- Psychic Nexus: Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry
- UFO-Dynamics
- Miracles of Peter Sugleris
- Psychiatric and Paranormal Aspects of Ufology
- Parent-Child Tensions
- You Can Raise Decent Children