

Career Ī Course In Miracles (ACIM) Combined Volume Growing restless in her early forties, she returned to NYU to study psychology.


Louis owned one or more bookstores on " Book Row" in Manhattan, and during the early years of their marriage Schucman worked at his main store. from New York University (NYU), (1931–1935), where she met fellow student Louis Schucman in 1932 and whom she married, in a 10-minute ceremony in a local rabbi's office, on May 26, 1933. Later in life, she considered herself an atheist. In 1921, when she was 12, Schucman visited Lourdes, France, where she had a spiritual experience, and in 1922 she was baptized as a Baptist. However, it was the family housekeeper, Idabel, a Baptist, who had the deepest religious influence on Schucman while she was growing up. Schucman's mother Rose dabbled in Theosophy and various expressions of Christianity such as Christian Science and the Unity School of Christianity. Though her parents were both half-Jewish, they were non-observant. Schucman had a brother, Adolph Cohn, who was almost 12 years her senior. Schucman was born Helen Dora Cohn in 1909 to Sigmund Cohn, a prosperous metallurgical chemist, and Rose Black, who had married on October 18, 1896, in Manhattan. However, at her request, her role as its "writer" was not revealed to the general public until after her death. Schucman is best known for having "scribed" with the help of colleague William Thetford the book A Course in Miracles (1st edition, 1975), the contents of which she claimed had been given to her by an inner voice she identified as Jesus. She was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York from 1958 until her retirement in 1976. Helen Cohn Schucman (born Helen Dora Cohn, J– February 9, 1981) was an American clinical psychologist and research psychologist. Professor of medical psychology, Columbia University
