Helen Schucman

Helen Cohn Schucman (born Helen Dora Cohn, July 14, 1909 – February 9, 1981) was an American clinical psychologist and research psychologist. She was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York from 1958 until her retirement in 1976. Schucman is best known for having "scribed" with the help of colleague William Thetford the book A Course in Miracles (first edition, 1975), the contents of which she claimed had been given to her by an inner voice she identified as Jesus. At her request, her role as its "writer" was not revealed to the general public until after her death.