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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, published at Boston in the early 1890s, and it approached the seance room as a laboratory. Mediumship, seances, spirit controls and materialisations are its recurring subject matter, but they are examined with the scientific apparatus of the decade: the hypnotism of Jean-Martin Charcot and Hippolyte Bernheim as the leading rival explanation, the physiology of the brain and the nerve cell as the frame within which mind must be understood, and the experimental testing of psychometry, the claimed reading of an object's history from contact with it. Its epistemology is stated plainly in its own pages: the only way to know whether there is writing on a slate is to look, and if the senses declare that there is, it makes no difference whether the fact can yet be accounted for scientifically, because the perception of facts logically precedes their explanation. That principle — insisting on the phenomenon while suspending the theory — is what distinguishes serious psychical research from both credulity and dismissal, and this journal is a good American instance of it. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Hypnotism and Suggestion | Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spiritualism |
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