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  1. Psychology and psychical research in France around the end of the 19th century.Régine Plas - 2012 - History of the Human Sciences 25 (2):91-107.
    During the last third of the 19th century, the ‘new’ French psychology developed within ‘the hypnotic context’ opened up by Charcot. In spite of their claims to the scientific nature of their hypnotic experiments, Charcot and his followers were unable to avoid the miracles that had accompanied mesmerism, the forerunner of hypnosis. The hysterics hypnotized in the Salpêtrière Hospital were expected to have supernormal faculties and these experiments opened the door to psychical research. In 1885 the first French psychology society (...)
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  • Becoming Eusapia: The rise of the “Diva of Scientists”.Francesco Paolo de Ceglia & Lorenzo Leporiere - 2020 - Science in Context 33 (4):441-471.
    ArgumentEusapia Palladino (1854-1918) is remembered as one of the most famous mediums in the history of spiritualism. Renowned scientists attended her séances in Europe and in the United States. They often had to admit to being unable to understand the origin of the phenomena produced. Cesare Lombroso, for example, after meeting Eusapia, was converted first to mediumism, then spiritualism. This article will retrace the early stages of her career as a medium and shed light on the way she managed to (...)
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  • Félida, doubled personality, and the ‘normal state’ in late 19th-century French psychology.Kim M. Hajek - 2021 - History of the Human Sciences 34 (2):66-89.
    The case of Félida X and her ‘doubled personality’ served in the last quarter of the 19th century as a proving ground for a distinctively French form of psychology that bore the stamp of physiology, including the comparative term normal state. Debates around Félida’s case provided the occasion for reflection about how that term and its opposites could take their places in the emerging discursive field of psychopathology. This article centres its analysis on Eugène Azam’s 1876–77 study of Félida, and (...)
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  • Enrico Morselli's Psychology and “Spiritism”: Psychiatry, psychology and psychical research in Italy in the decades around 1900.Maria Teresa Brancaccio - 2014 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48:75-84.
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  • From the writing cure to the talking cure: Revisiting the French ‘discovery of the unconscious’.Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau - 2019 - History of the Human Sciences 32 (1):41-65.
    It is often said that the advent of the Freudian talking cure around 1900 revolutionised the psychiatric setting by giving patients a voice. Less known is that for decades prior to the popularisation of this technique, several researchers had been experimenting with another, written practice aimed at probing the mind. This was particularly the case in France. Alongside neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot’s spectacular staging of hypnotised bodies, ‘automatic writing’ became widely used in fin-de-siècle clinics and laboratories, with French psychologists regularly asking (...)
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  • Nineteenth Century Psychical Research in Mainstream Journals: The Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger.Carlos S. Alvarado & Renaud Evrard - 2014 - Journal of Scientific Exploration 27 (4).
    While there were several psychical research journals during the nineteenth century many interesting discussions about psychic phenomena took place as well in a variety of intellectual reviews and scholarly and scientific journals of various disciplines. One such example was the French journal Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger founded in 1876 by Théodule Ribot. Reflecting the various interests of psychologists during the nineteenth century many topics were discussed in the Revue, among them hypnotic phenomena, as well as mental (...)
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  • Essay Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles of Interest.Editor P. David Moncrief, Henry H. Bauer, Carlos S. Alvarado, Sally Rhine Feather, Djohar Si Ahmed, Stan V. McDaniel, Imants Baruss, Tana Dineen & Stephen C. Jett - 2011 - Journal of Scientific Exploration 25 (3).
    Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease by Jeremy A. Greene On the Trans-Corporeal Action of Spirit by William Stainton Moses Posthumous Humanity: A Study of Phantoms by Adolphe D’Assier The Phantom of the Living: Anatomy and Physiology of the Soul: Experimental Researches on the Doubling of Man’s Body by Hector Durville The Case for Astral Projection by Sylvan J. Muldoon The Phenomena of Bilocation by Ernesto Bozzano The Phenomena of Astral Projection by Sylvan J. Muldoon and Hereward (...)
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  • Fragments of a Life in Psychical Research: The Case of Charles Richet.Carlos S. Alvarado - 2018 - Journal of Scientific Exploration 32 (1).
    Autobiographies are one of the sources we have to learn about past developments in psychical research. While powerful in terms of presenting a personal perspective, such documents can be problematic and may present incomplete perspectives. I will discuss this in the context of a translation of an autobiographical essay French physiologist Charles Richet wrote about his involvement in psychical research in his Souvenirs d’un Physiologiste (1933). In the essay Richet presented an outline of aspects of his psychic career, including aspects (...)
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