![]() ![]() ![]() To integrate psychical research into nascent psychology ( Bjork, 1983 Bordogna, 2008 Coon, 1992 Taylor, 1996). Not trained by Wundt), ruthlessly combated the father of American psychology in his attempts Hall, Edward Titchener and James McKeen Cattell (along with other leading US psychologists In the United States, several of Wundt’s students, such as Hugo Münsterberg, Stanley G. Reviewed and defended the work of the SPR in psychology and science periodicals like In 18, a president of the British Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and he Inġ884, he became a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) and, Made original contributions to psychical research and regularly collaborated andĬorresponded with British and French psychical researchers ( Skrupskelis and Berkeley, 1992–2004 James, 1986). Psychical research as intrinsically unscientific in the same year he established GermanĮxperimental psychology in Leipzig ( Wundt, 1879), James sought to integrate it into nascent American psychology. Whereas Wundt had publicly and programmatically rejected Nothing epitomizes the ambivalent relationship of academic psychology to psychical researchĬlearer than two figures generally considered as the very founders of modern psychology, Independently of the still hotly debated evidence for ‘supernormal’ phenomena. Survival of death, these contributions enriched early psychological knowledge quite While rooted in attempts to test controversial claims of telepathy, clairvoyance and Surveys undermining the notion of dissociation and hallucinations as intrinsically Hypnotism ( Alvarado, 2002 Ellenberger, 1970 Gauld, 1992 Shamdasani, 1993) and experiments and large-scale They contributed important empiricalįindings by conducting the first experiments investigating the psychology of eyewitnessġ887), empirical and conceptual studies illuminating mechanisms of dissociation and Innovations such as randomized study designs ( Hacking, 1988). International Congresses of Physiological/Experimental Psychology ( Alvarado, forthcoming Nicolas and Söderlund, 2005 Plas, 2000), and they devised methodological Psychical researchers initiated and organized the Richard Hodgson and Henry and Eleanor Sidgwick were actively involved in the making of theįledgling science of psychology. Introduction: psychical research and the ‘new psychology’Īt the end of the 19th century, psychical researchers such as Frederic and Arthur Myers,Įdmund Gurney, Julian Ochorowicz, Charles Richet, Max Dessoir, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Research, dominated by accounts deeply averse to its very subject matter, has been part ofĪn ongoing form of ‘boundary-work’ to bolster the scientific status of psychology. It is argued that the traditional historiography of psychical Hugo Münsterberg as a representative example, this article discusses strategies employedīy psychologists in the United States to expel psychical research from the agenda of Analysing theĬelebrated exposure of the medium Eusapia Palladino by German-born Harvard psychologist Telepathy and other controversial topics into the nascent discipline. Himself a psychical researcher and sought to integrate the scientific study of mediumship, The fact that the founder of academic psychology in America, William James, considered Moreover, with few exceptions historians have failed to discuss the wider implications of Researchers were actively involved in the making of fledgling academic psychology. Largely unacknowledged by historians of the human sciences, late-19th-century psychical ![]()
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