Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Though only the first of them predates Traveller. I suspect the most discussed work with a persecuted psis theme around the time Traveller was being written would have been Katherine Kurtz Deryni series. Society hates and persecutes psis is not a rare theme in SF.

I'd be reluctant to use that, psi in the Deryni uses an awful lot of traditional magical symbolism, rather than making an attempt to be faux-scientific.

Originally Posted by malloyd

The bit that may be original to Traveller are the Psionic Institutes, I can't actually think of a precedent for those.

The Xavier Institute.