Carl Wickland

Carl August Wickland (born Carl August Wicklund, 14 February 1861 – 13 November 1945) was a 20th-century Swedish-American psychiatrist and psychical researcher.

Life and career Carl Wickland (Wiklund) was born in 1861 at Liden, Sweden, to Anders Wiklund and Ingrid Brita Nilsdotter, and was one of nine siblings.

Anna Wickland died on 3 March 1937, after a nine-month illness. Carl Wickland died in 1945, at the age of 84. Wing Anderson, an author of material dealing with sleep suggestion therapy for the correction of psychosomatic ills, purchased the copyrights to both of Wickland's books.

Wickland was convinced that he was in contact with a group of spirits known as the "Mercy Band" who would remove the possessors, and help them in the spirit world. Psychologist Robert A. Baker listed Wickland and Arthur Guirdham as early psychiatrists who preferred to "ignore the science and embrace the supernatural".

Wickland founded the National Psychological Institute in Los Angeles, California, to study psychic phenomena.

Publications Thirty Years Among the Dead (1924) The Gateway of Understanding (1934)