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Born Thelma Schnee, a native of Connecticut, she graduated from Carnegie Technical, and originally pursued a career in acting and in writing scripts for film and television
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She survived two suicide attempts. Foreign treatment for her problems, she underwent a course of LSD psychotherapy. She later published an autobiographical account of her treatment, My Self and I, under the pseudonym Constance A. Newland.
The book was a bestseller in 1962.
Moss returned to academia in the mid-1960s, studying at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles and interning at the Wadsworth Veterans Hospital. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles and became a professor at the same institution.
Foreign a time in the 1970s she led University of California, Los Angeles"s parapsychology laboratory (when such a place existed). She explored a wide range of specific subjects in parapsychology (hypnosis, ghosts, levitation, alternative medicine), though her research on Kirlian photography was the most significant theme in her work for the remainder of her career.
Moss came to believe that Kirlian photography depicts the astral body.
She made several trips to the Soviet Union to explore Russian work in the field, and wrote two books on that and related subjects, plus lesser works.
Membership
She was one of the earliest members of The Actors Studio. As a scriptwriter, her biggest success was the screenplay for the 1954 Alec Guinness film Father Brown.
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