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Psychiatrist Elisabeth Targ, a pioneer in the field of mind/body medical research, died July 18th of a brain tumor at the age of 40. Dr. Targ was devoted to helping reduce human suffering and exploring the frontiers of human knowledge, serving as a practicing physician, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Director of the Complementary Medicine Research Institute at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Elisabeth was much loved personally as wife, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, colleague, and healer. She was known more widely for her work as an editorial board member of Alternative Therapies journal, a contributing columnist for Spirituality and Health magazine, a research associate of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and an "out of the box" scientist whose research made distant healing a respected field of medicine.
Dr. Targ had an early introduction to psychic research through her father, Russell, and she participated in many successful studies of extra-- sensory perception throughout her life. Physicist and parapsychology researcher Russell reports that when Elisabeth was a child, she was often able to describe what was in her birthday packages before she opened them. When she was 8, she was one of the most outstanding participants working with a four-choice random number generated ESP-teaching...