In a study published last fall in Schizophrenia Bulletin, Powers and Corlett compared self-described psychics with people diagnosed with a psychotic disorder who experience auditory hallucinations. It was through a friend from the center that Jessica ended up in the lab of Philip Corlett and Albert Powers, a psychologist and a psychiatrist at Yale. “Just being around people who are going through similar things-that helps a lot, because I could talk to anybody about those things and not feel like I was crazy,” she said. Meeting others like her at the center gave Jessica a sense of relief. In 2013, she says, she enrolled in classes there that taught her to use her “gift.” A self-described psychic medium, Jessica tells me she hears voices that other people do not (in addition to sometimes seeing people others do not see), at varying intensity, and mostly through her right ear. At a co-worker’s suggestion, she went to the Healing in Harmony center in Connecticut. Jessica later moved back home and got a job as a pharmacy technician, all the while figuring out how to cope with what was happening to her.
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