of Hélène." Evaluation Théodore Flournoy considered her "cycles" as the products of what he judged to be infantile imaginings and her Martian language as a mere constructed language. Flournoy concluded that her "Martian" language had a strong resemblance to Ms. Smith's native language of French and that her automatic writing was "romances of the subliminal imagination, derived largely from forgotten sources (for example, books read as a child)." He invented the term cryptomnesia to describe this phenomenon. Psychologists Leonard Zusne, Warren H. Jones have written: The case was examined in depth by psychologist Donovan Rawcliffe in 1952 who noted that Smith had suffered from a fantasy prone personality and hysterical hallucinations. References External links Flournoy, From India to the Planet Mars, English translation of the 1901 edition. Entire text on line at Google Books; PDF available for download. full text of From India to the Planet Mars at sacred-texts.com (different scan than Google). Théodore Flournoy, Des Indes à la planète Mars , Étude sur un cas de somnambulisme avec glossolalie, Éditions Alcan et Eggimann, Paris et Genève, 1900 Daniel Rosenberg, article in Cabinet magazine on Helene Smith Huub Engels, Understanding the Glossolalia of Hélène Smith, the Famous Spiritist Medium Huub Engels, PhD thesis (in Dutch) paying attention to the Martian language of Hélène Smith in chapter 7. Summary in English on pages 207-214 1861 births 1929 deaths 20th-century occultists French occultists French spiritual mediums Drawing mediums Surrealism