Talk:Dorothy Allison (psychic)

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The current description of Dorothy Allison is extremely biased, hypercritical, and inaccurate. It is one-sided and depicts her as a fraud and a charlatan. To characterize Dorothy as "self-proclaimed", ignores the view of many writers, researchers, police, victims of crime and their families, who recognized her unusual abilities to know what happened to missing persons, especially children. As a mother and grandmother, she was most interested in helping to locate missing children, whether they were alive or dead, and she usually knew their fate before they were discovered.

The two most prominent books, which she did not initiate, establish her factual record of predictions and discoveries. Although, her name appears as one of the Authors of "DOROTHY ALLISON: A PSYCHIC STORY", it was initiated and written by Scott Jacobson. The second book, which is not even mentioned in this Wikipedia article, is: MISSING PERSON: The True Story of a Police Case Resolved by the Clairvoyant Powers of DOROTHY ALLISON. It was written by two respescted Journalists and newspaper reporters, Robert V. Cox and Kenneth L. Peiffer, Jr. Dorothy Allison was sought out by hundreds of police departments throughout the US and in some foreign countries, as well. She worked with local police departments, such as the Nutley, NJ PD, who kept watch over her home and maintained close contact with her, as well as many County, and State Police, including the FBI. While there were always critics, she was well respected and well-known nationally.

As she said herself, "No psychic, including me, can be correct all the time, and anyone who claims to be always correct, is not truly a psychic". She may have been wrong in the case of the Atlanta murders, as well as others, but what about all the cases that she was right about? The odds of guessing the facts that she predicted accurately, simply by chance, are astronomical, and well beyond the "null hypothesis".

I taught psychology full-time, for over 50 years*, and during some of those years I also worked with numerous police departments as a consultant on hypnosis. I am well aware that most of them at some time have used psychics to assist them. In this connection, I came to know and to work directly with Dorothy Allison in the 1980's and '90's. While she was not always right about some of the things she reported, she was right about other things, that she could not possible have known about in any way that we could understand. When she was right it was significantly beyond chance expectation. She predicted an important events accurately in my own family, which I still find astonishing. She certainly should not be dismissed as "self-proclaimed", and a fraud,

Furthermore, Wikipedia readers should know that Dorothy never took a penny for any of her police investigations or searches for missing people from the individuals involved or from the police departments. She was extremely sincere, caring, sensitive, generous, and humble. Dorothy Allison deserves better than this existing description of her.

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Sheldon Malev Adjunct Professor Social Sciences Department Westchester Community College Valhalla, NY 10595 24.187.175.62 (talk) 10:39, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We follow the reliable sources. Gullible and sensational books are not useable except for the opinions of the authors.

It also does not matter who you claim to be, or even who you are. --Hob Gadling (talk) 11:44, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]