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  • noun parapsychology, rare A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.

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From Ancient Greek πρόσωπον ("mask"); introduced by French psychical researcher René Sudre, whose book "Parapsychology" (1926) was published in English by Grove Press in 1962.

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