"While many media outlets reported that Woodward’s book documented Clinton holding seances and “speaking to the dead,” Dr. Jean Houston, the advisor who worked with Clinton during these “imaginary chats,” said that the exercise was more akin to brainstorming than a religious ritual:
- “We were using an imaginative exercise to force her ideas, to think about how Eleanor would have responded to a particular problem,” Dr. Houston said. “I have never been to a seance.”
She said that what happened during the “brainstorming” sessions was somewhat distorted by Bob Woodward in his new book, “The Choice.” Then, she said, Mr. Woodward’s description was deeply distorted in newspaper accounts.