No honest exploration of Intruders can ignore the controversies, and the PDF edition preserves these debates in raw form. Hopkins was a fierce proponent of the "psychic trauma" model—that these events were real, physical intrusions. He clashed sharply with other researchers, most notably the late Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John E. Mack, who saw the phenomenon as more metaphysical or transpersonal.
The book chronicles the life of Cathy, a respectable Indiana housewife and nurse who began experiencing classic "haunting" phenomena: missing time, odd scars, nosebleeds, and a persistent phobia of certain times of night. Hopkins uses hypnotic regression (a controversial method even then) to peel back the layers of her memory. Budd Hopkins Intruders.pdf
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