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Chapters on space travel, the computer, teaching machines, intelligence & creativity, and parapsychology.
Translated into English in 1905 as Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations.
"Maxwell was a distinguished French awyer who devoted a great deal of his time to the pursuit of psychical research. He investigated many mediums and came to conclusions that were quite original. He was one of the few researchers to take up the problem of mediumistic 'personification,' that is, the way the phenomena in séances present themselves as coming from an individual intelligence. . . . Maxwell also introduced a helpful sysem of classification for psychic phenomena, making a distinction between physical and mental phenomena" [Crabtree #1526].
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #579.
Mayo was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Discusses the divining rod, ghosts, and vampirism as well as various forms of natural and artificial trance. Mentions a patient with "quintiple consciousness," apparently a case of multiple personality. [Taken from Crabtree 1988].
Professor of Biophysics at the University of Pittsburgh, McConnell founded the Parapsychological Association in 1957.
McCreery was Research Officer, Institute of Psychophysical Research, Oxford.
Contains essays on religion and the sciences of life; mechanism, purpose and the new freedom; the Apollonian and the Dionysian theories of man; the need for psychical research; psychical research as a university study; anthropology and history; Japan or America - an open letter to H.I.M. the emperor of Japan; the island of Eugenia - the fantasy of a foolish philosopher; family allowances: a practical eugenic suggestion; family allowances as a eugenic measaure; was Darwin wrong?; world chaos - the responsibility of science as cause and cure; our neglect of psychology; ethics of natinalism; whither America?
Mostly a narrative history of parapsychology, spiritualism, and related fields.
Wing M2679. A late book by this important Cambridge Platonist. As the title suggests, a strident argument against astrology. Includes the four chapters from Butler's book that occasioned More's refutation.
"An important source for understanding how practitioners of animal magnetism saw themselves in relationship to the occult and supernormal phenomena. In their experiments mesmerists encountered many phenomena that had traditionally been explained in occult or spiritis terms, and a number of mesmerists considered themselves the true inheritors of that tradition. While they believed the phenomena that occurred in the occult tradition to be genuine, because they themselves encountered similar phenomena, they strove to explain them in more 'naturalistic' terms. In this book Morin expresses this viewpoint and uses the findings of the magnetists to shed light on the true nature of ccult phenomena. The first half of the book is an exposition of animal magnetism and the many different forsm it has taken in practice. It includes an excellent study of somnambulism and somnambulistic clairvoyance. The second part takes up the 'occult sciences' and discusses such subjects as table trning, spiritualistic mediums, hallucinations, and the school of magnetic 'magic' founded by Du Potet" [Crabtree #831].
Crabtree 1069 (1883 edition). Memorial edition with a biography of Moses. This is his most important book and one of the most significant texts in 19th century Spiritualism. Moses described "the process and content of his automatic writings purported to come from spirits" [Crabtree].Moses was one of the most prominent late 19th century British Spiritualists. Ordained as a minister in the Church of England by Bishop Wilberforce, he at first disdained Spiritualism, deeming D. D. Home as "the dreariest twaddle he ever came across." Nonetheless, on April 2, 1872 he attended his first séance with Lottie Fowler acting as medium. Within six months he became convinced of the existence of discarnate spirits and their power to communicate. Soon he reported his own first experience of levitation. Moses went on to become himself one of the most famous mediums in the UK. "Moses' life and activity left a deep impression on Spiritualism. He took a leading part in several organizations. From 1884 until his death he was president of the London Spiritualist Alliance. The phenomena reported in his mediumship served as a partial inducement for the founding of the Society for Psychical Research. He was on its foundation council [from which he later resigned because of its unfair — as he thought — treatment of the medium William Eglinton]. … He edited Light, contributed many articles on Spiritualism to Human Nature and other periodicals, and published a number of books, primarily developed from his automatic writings, under the pen name of "M.A. Oxon," a reference to his degree from Oxford" [Gordon Melton, ed. Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, 4th edition, vol. 2: 879-881].
Not in Crabtree (but there are 9 entries for Moses). OCLC records 5 holdings for this American version: LC, Newberry, United Library, Wisconsin Historical Society, and the State Library of Victoria in Australia. Moses was one of the most prominent late 19th century British Spiritualists. Ordained as a minister in the Church of England by Bishop Wilberforce, he at first disdained Spiritualism, deeming D. D. Home as "the dreariest twaddle he ever came across." Nonetheless, on April 2, 1872 he attended his first séance with Lottie Fowler acting as medium. Within six months he became convinced of the existence of discarnate spirits and their power to communicate. Soon he reported his own first experience of levitation. Moses went on to become himself one of the most famous mediums in the UK. "Moses' life and activity left a deep impression on Spiritualism. He took a leading part in several organizations. From 1884 until his death he was president of the London Spiritualist Alliance. The phenomena reported in his mediumship served as a partial inducement for the founding of the Society for Psychical Research. He was on its foundation council [from which he later resigned because of its unfair—as he thought—treatment of the medium William Eglinton]. … He edited Light, contributed many articles on Spiritualism to Human Nature and other periodicals, and published a number of books, primarily developed from his automatic writings, under the pen name of "M.A. Oxon," a reference to his degree from Oxford" [Gordon Melton, ed. Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, 4th edition, vol. 2: 879-881].
"Moutin believed that hypnotism and animal magnetism are two quite distinct phenomena operating in quite different ways. He writes appreciatively of Braid's work and the importance of his discoveries concerning the psychology of 'nervous sleep.' But he emphasizes that although in hpnotism the production of a state of sleep is essential for healing, in animal magnetism healing does not require a change of consciousness. Moutin also reviews effects he believes to be produced by animal magnetism that could not be accounted for by hypnotism, such as magnetic effects at a distance without the knowledge of the subject" [Crabtree 1183].
Five lectures delivered as an introductory course for those who came to study with him in London or New York, revised shortly before his death in 1947.
Crabtree 1988 #416; Gauld's History of Hypnotism p. 138; Wellcome IV p. 386. By a Montpélier physician."Pigeaire addresses himself principally to the members of the commission appointed by the Academy of Medicine to investigate animal magnetism. He states his objections to certain conditions demanded by the commission and to statements by Dubois of Amiens rejecting clairvoyant magnetic phenomena. He asserts that such paranormal phenomena are now well established" [Crabtree].
A record of psychic communications from her father, received through the mediumship of Mrs. Eileen Garett, which Helen Sheppard Plimpton recorded and transcribed.
Not in NUC or OCLC; not in Crabtree. An enthusiast's proposal to employ occult means of investigation (telepathy and the like) in scientific work.
The ancient "science" of character-reading from physiognomy saw its Renaissance revival in della Porta's widely influential book — one of the first such manuals to be illustrated —, which itself was the ultimate foundation of Lavater's revival of the idea in the late 18th century. As so often, Sol Diamond got its importance exactly right, for the notions of causal dependence of behavior on the body and its expressive modes as well as of the possibility of methodically correlating the two were concepts necessary for the later emergence of clinical psychology and psychiatry. Porta himself was a major figure in the emergence of natural science, though in typical Renaissance fashion he combined elements of credulity with recognition of the importance of experiment and experiential confirmation of preconceived theories.
- Contains Delgado's "Recent Advances in Brain Control"
- Myron Woolman's "Psychology and the Functional Illiterate"
- William A. Deterline's "Psychology and Instructional Technology"
- Seymour Rubenfeld's "Delinquency and Crime"
- Dagobert Runes' "Psychology and Punitive Justice"
- Nathan Ackerman's "The Social Psychology of Prejudice"
- Ben Strickland's "Existential Psychology"
- Ralph Mason Dreger's "Psychology and the Development of Human Potentials"
- Moreno's "Psychodrama and Trends in Group Psychotherapy"
- Sanford Unger's "LSD-type Drugs and Psychedelic Therapy"
- Molly Harrower's "Psychodiagnostic Testing"
- Joseph L. French's "Psychology and the Gifted Child"
- Sheila M. Chown's "Experimental Psychology and the Problems of Aging"
- Alexander Reid Martin & Richard Lee Hall's "The Psychology of Leisure"
- Russell Eisenman's "The Psychology of Modern Art"
- A. A. Roback & Wade Baskin's "The Psychology of Post-Freudian Literature"
- Rhine's "The Science of Parapsychology"
- R. Buckminster Fuller's "Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage"
- A. A. Volkov et al's "Psychology and Space Exploration."
Crabtree #1497. "The author attests to the reality and objectivity of many paranormal phenomena, but points out the danger of prolonged experience with these manifestations" [Crabtree].
Wing S430. OCLC locates 9 copies but the collation given is for a defective copy lacking A2 and Ll8 and without the portrait. Salmon was an English physician and astrologer who published many works, notable for their emphasis on practice with patients rather than theory. Heirs to Hippocrates lists three of his books (654-656) and Hunter & Macalpine anthologize his Iatrica (pp. 258-261).
Studies of Blavatsky, the Cabbala, & Spenser.
Contains papers by Smythies, Gilibert Murray, H. H. Price, Rosalind Heywood, Cyril Burt, Alister Hardy, C. D. Broad, John Beloff, and 6 others of equal stature.
Crabtree 1988 1654. Describes sittings Tanner and Hall had with the medium Leonora Piper as well as material gathered by other investigators of Mrs. Piper. Tanner is skeptical anent any truly paranormal elements.
Pages 61-123 deal with magic and the prevention of disease.
Tyrrell's last book in which he gives his final beliefs about paranormal phenomena.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1621: "Examines mental disturbances that he believes can be linked directly or indirectly to a belief in spiritualism."
Published in a trade edition by Harper the same year as Experiments in Telepathy. Originally a chemical engineer, Warcollier published La télépathie in 1921, a 384-page book reporting telepathic experiments he had conducted in the previous 15 years. He oversaw the European end of a transatlantic experiment in telepathy, jointly conducted with Gardner Murphy between 1923 and 1937 (chapter 4 here), and became a member of the Boston Society's Research Committee in 1935. The final two chapters report work done under the Society's aegis and appear here for the first time. Published as a book only in English.
Describes 985 annotated items plus separate unnumbered lists of theses, U.S. government publications, and general sources. Contains a glossary plus name, title, and subject indices.
Contributions by Soal, Pratt, Dingwall, et al.
The foundation text for the Emmanuel Movement, which McComb, Worcester, and Isador Coriat founded, Religion and Medicine "examines the nature of the subconscious mind and its place in the production of 'functional disorders.' Emphasis is placed on the value of hypnotism with suggestion as a treatment technique" Crabtree 1988 #1615. "This is the official history and teaching of the Emmanuel Movement, one of the earliest efforts in the twentieth century to integrate spiritual and psychological approaches to healing. Based on the initial effort of James Bisset Pratt with tuberculosis patients . . ., Emmanuel Church, Boston, began work with the emotionally disturbed in 1906. The movement perceived itself as part of the demand for a functional faith similar to Christian Science. Most of the book details theories of personality and healing" [Vande Kempe Psychology and Theology in Western Thought, 1672-1965 #514].
Mostly devoted to Hans Bender & John Mischo's "Praekognition in Traumserien: Dokumentation und Strukturanalyse sinnvoller Koinzidenzen im 'Fall Gotenhafen'" [pp. 114-200 + 4 pages of half-tone plates]. Also includes G. F. Hartlaub's "Parapsychologie als Revision der Aufklärung"; and Hans Bender's "Schopenhauer und die Parapsychologie."Section 1: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, Occult, Astrology (A-L)
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