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From Pat Deveney's database:
Psychical Review. This was the journal of the American Psychical Society, which was founded in
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| NYPL; Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; Columbia University; Cornell University; University of California, Berkeley; Yale University; Newberry Library; Northwestern University; etc. Microfilm, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI; LOC; Wisconsin Historical Society. | |
| Psychical Review V1 Index 1892-3 | |
| Psychical Review V1 N1 Aug 1892 | |
| Psychical Review V1 N2 Nov 1892 | |
| Psychical Review V1 N3 Feb 1893 | |
| Psychical Review V1 N4 May 1893 | |
| Psychical Review V1 Wrappers 1892-3 | |
| Psychical Review V2 Index 1893-4 | |
| Psychical Review V2 N5 Aug 1893 | |
| Psychical Review V2 N6-7 Feb 1894 | |
| Psychical Review V2 N8 May 1894 | |
| Psychical Review V2 Wrappers 1893-4 | |
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The Psychical Review was the organ of the American Psychical Society in early-1890s Boston, and it approached the seance room as a laboratory rather than a shrine. Mediumship, seances, controls, and materializations are its recurring subject matter, but they are examined through the scientific apparatus of the day: the hypnotism of Charcot and Bernheim, the physiology of the brain and nerve-cell, and the experimental testing of psychometry, exemplified by readings from the 'delicate psychometer' Charles Inman. Its citations of Gall and cerebral localization belong to mental physiology, not phrenology. It represents the American effort to build a rigorous, physiologically-literate psychical science on the model of the British S.P.R. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spiritualism |
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