Essays in psychical research / William James.

Author
James, William, 1842-1910 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
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xxxvi, 684 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Contents
    • Essays in psychical research
    • 1. Review of Planchette / by Epes Sargent (1869)
    • 2. Circulars of the American Society for Psychical Research (1884-1906)
    • a. Organization (1884)
    • b. Request for information (1884)
    • c. Circular requesting information on mediumistic phenomena (1885)
    • d. Circular requesting financial support (1892)
    • e. Notice concerning dissolution of the American branch (1906)
    • 3. Report of the Committee on Mediumistic Phenomena (1886)
    • 4. Notes on echolalia in Mrs. Piper (1886)
    • 5. Letter on Professor Newcomb's address before the American Society for Psychical Research (1886)
    • 6. Letters : James on the religio-philosophical journal (1886, 1890)
    • a. An eviable and eminent place in American journalism (1886)
    • b. On preserving the Journal (1890)
    • 7. Review of Phantasms of the living / Edmund Gurney et al. (1887)
    • 8. Letter on Mrs. Ross, the medium (1887)
    • 9. Review of "The second report on experimental psychology," / by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1889)
    • 10. Notes on automatic writing (1889)
    • 11. The census of hallucinations (1889-1897)
    • a. International Congress of Experimental Psychology : instructions to the person undertaking to collect answers (1889)
    • b. Letter on publicity for the census (1890)
    • c. The name hallucination (1890)
    • d. The statistical inquiry into hallucinations in America (1892)
    • e. Review of Ueber die trugwahrnehmung / by Edmund Parish (1895)
    • f. Review of the "Report on the census of hallucinations" (1895)
    • g. A correction (1895)
    • i. Review of Zur kritik des telepathischen beweismaterical and hallucinations and illusions / by Edmund Parish (1897)
    • 12. A record of observations of certain phenomena of trance (1890)
    • 13. What psychical research has accomplished (1892)
    • 14. Review of Science and a future of life / by Frederic W. H. Myers (1890)
    • 15. Letter to the editor of Mind on Ward's review of Briefer course (1893)
    • 16. Review of Annales des sciences psychiques (1894)
    • 17. Two reviews of Apparitions and thought transference / by Frank Podmore (1895)
    • 18. Telepathy (1895)
    • 19. Address of the President before the Society for Psychical Research
    • 20. Psychical research (1896)
    • 21. A case of psychic automatism (1896)
    • 22. Telepathy : controversy with Titchener on Lehmann and Hansen (1896-1899)
    • a. Review of "Ueber unvillkürliches flüstern" / by F.C.C. Hansen and Alfred Lehmann (1896)
    • b. Review of "Involuntary whispering considered in relation to thought-transference / by Henry Sidgwick (1897)
    • c. Letter : Lehmann and Hansen on telepathy (1899)
    • e. Letter : telepathy once more, no. 1 (1899)
    • Appendix
    • 23. Review of "Telepathic dreams experimentally induced," by G. B. Ermacora (1896) 24. Review of I femomeni telepatici e le allucinazioni veridiche / by Enrico Morselli (1897)
    • 25. Letter on Mrs. Piper, the medium (1898)
    • 26. Review on "A further record of observations of certain phenomena of trance" / by Ricahrd Hodgson (1898)
    • 27. Frederic Myers's service to psychology (1901)
    • 28. Review of Human personality and its survival of bodily death / by Frederic W. H. Myers (1903)
    • 29. Telepathy once more, no. II (1903)
    • 30. Letter to James Hyslop supporting the prospectus for an American Institute for Scientific Research (1903)
    • 31. A case of automatic drawing (1904)
    • 32. Letter to J.G. Piddington on Mrs. Thompson in trance (1904)
    • 33. Letter to Isaac K. Funk on The widow's mite (1904)
    • 34. A case of Clairvoyance (1907)
    • 35. Letter on Dr. Gower and table lifting (1907)
    • 36. Physical phenomena at a private circle (1909)
    • 37. Report on Mrs. Piper's Hodgson-control (1909)
    • 38. The confidences of a "psychical researcher" (1909)
    • 39. A possible case of projections of the double (1909).
    ISBN
    0674267087 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^^85007595^
    OCLC
    11918890
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    H - S
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