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Helen Cohn Schucman | |
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| Born | Helen Dora Cohn July 14, 1909 New York City, US |
| Died | February 9, 1981 (aged 71) New York City, US |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of medical psychology, Columbia University |
| Known for | A Course In Miracles (ACIM) |
| Spouse | Louis Schucman |
Helen Cohn Schucman (born Helen Dora Cohn, July 14, 1909 – February 9, 1981) was an American clinical psychologist and research psychologist. She was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York from 1958 until her retirement in 1976. Schucman is best known for having "scribed" with the help of colleague William Thetford the book A Course in Miracles (first edition, 1975),[1][2] the contents of which she claimed had been given to her by an inner voice she identified as Jesus. At her request, her role as its "writer" was not revealed to the general public until after her death.[3]
- ^ The first edition of A Course in Miracles was published in 1975 as a 4-volume set of books. Vol. 1 contains Chapters 1-14 of the "Text" section of the Course, Vol. 2 contains Chapters 15-30 of the "Text" section, Vol. 3 contains the "Workbook" section, and Vol. 4 contains the "Teacher's Manual" section. The Foundation for Parasensory Investigation, founded and run by Judith Skutch and her second husband, Robert E. Skutch, published the first edition of the Course and also held the 1975 copyright to the work. The Freeperson Press, a small, privately owned printing/publishing company at 325 Ninth Street in San Francisco, California, did the actual printing and binding of the first edition. The edition published by the Foundation for Inner Peace claims that the course "was published in three volumes in June 1976". The first edition consisted of 300 sets of the four-volume Course. These 300 sets were printed and bound over several months in 1975 by the Freeperson Press. Eleanor Camp Criswell, the press's owner/manager, was in charge of the printing and binding, and it has become customary to call the first edition the "Criswell edition" or the "Freeperson Press edition". Criswell printed only 100 sets of Course at a time as they were needed for sale and distribution, so the first edition is actually three separate printings of the books. The "first printing" of the first edition, consisting of the first 100 four-volume sets Criswell printed, were bound in yellow covers. The "second printing", consisting of the next 100 sets she printed, were bound in white covers. The "third printing", consisting of the final 100 sets she printed, were bound in blue covers. By February 1976, all 300 sets of the Criswell edition had been sold and/or distributed. Judith (born Judith M. Rothstein) married Robert Edward Skutch in 1966 (it was Judith's second marriage), but they divorced (on friendly terms) in 1980. Later in the 1980s, Judith Skutch married William Wallace "Whit" Whitson and became known as Judith Skutch Whitson. Eleanor Camp Criswell became known as Eleanor Criswell Hanna after her marriage to philosopher Thomas Louis Hanna in 1974. Thomas L. Hanna was the originator of Hanna Somatics, aka Hanna Somatic Education. In 1975 Thomas and Eleanor co-founded the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in Novato, California.
- ^ A complete copy of the first edition of the Course is online at http://openacim.org
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