Drafted and added to Workington's page on Wikipedia June 2009.
Arthur Guirdham (1905-1992) - Physician, psychiatrist, novelist, and writer on alternative medicine,ESP and reincarnation. Workington born and educated at Oxford University. Arthur was convinced he was the reincarnation of a Cathar priest who lived during the persecution of the Cathars in France in the 13th century. His books The Lake and the Castle (1976) and The Great Heresy: The History and Beliefs of the Cathars (1977) describe the Cathar's loyalty to their basic dualistbeliefs [33][34]. His book The Theory of Disease (1957) is mentioned in Brian Inglis' History of Medicine[35] and describes Arthur's theory about the link between personality and illness.[36][37]
