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What has aged better is Barker’s forward-thinking attitude in his job as a senior consultant at Shelton Hospital, a county asylum in Shrewsbury, England, where he and a young colleague worked together to make the old-fashioned institution’s conditions less miserable for its patients, many of whom had been there for years and would go on to die there.Īlongside his modernity, though, Barker was also interested in a phenomenon many saw (and still see) as entirely anscientific and superstitious: precognition.
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The Premonitions Bureau, expanded from Knight’s 2019 new yorker article, “ The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future,“Ostensibly focuses on John Barker, a psychiatrist in his 40s who was first known in medical circles for his work on aversion therapy, “a technique that involved the use of electric shocks and nausea-inducing drugs to treat addictions and other unwanted behaviors,” and which (although Knight doesn’t mention this) was used for a time to try to “cure” gay people or, in the example Knight gives, on “a man who dressed up in his wife’s clothes and was afraid of being prosecuted as a transvestite.”Īs disturbing as a recognize version therapy is - many might an extreme version of it from Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and its film adaptation - it was considered, at the time, to be rather cutting edge. It was pleasingly fitting to experience a few of these while reading new yorker staff writer Sam Knight’s first book, The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretoldwhose main subject matter sits at the intersection of coincidence and the supernatural. For a while last year, I started using a little notebook to keep track of all the coincidences and synchronicities I encountered.Īt first, it was eerie: People brought something up in conversation that I’d just been writing about the day before I’d notice the name of a production company in a film I was watching was identical to a key term in a subject I had been researching that morning two books I was reading at the same time, one fiction and one nonfiction, both referenced the same historical anecdote.Įven though I’ve long misplaced the notebook, I continue to pay attention to these odd moments of serendipity.