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Periodical: Revue de Psychopotence

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Revue de Psychopotence. Publication Mensuelle Independante et Documentaire de Mentalite et de Psychisme Experimental . Other titles: Revue de Psychologie Applique et de Psychopotence 1907—1908 Monthly Paris,France. Language: French. Editor: Leon Demonchy, M.D.. 1/1, November 1907-1/8, June 1908. With the third issue, January 1908, the journal became Revue de Psychologie Applique et de Psychopotence, reflecting its adoption as organ of the Societe de Psychologie Applique. 10 pp., 6 francs. "Psychopotence," as defined, described the crowd of poorly understood states that included Od, "neuric force," astral force, etc. An individual could more or less psychopotent as measured by the phenomena he could produce. The journal, which seems to have been written entirely by Dr. Demonchy, included examples of Psychopotence, including telepathy, skin-writing ("dermographisme"), and the production of stigmata. Neither the neologism nor the journal seems to have caught on with the public.

Other Sources:BNF
Issues:Revue De Psychopotence V1 N1 1907 Nov
Revue De Psychopotence V1 N2 1907 Dec
Revue De Psychologie Applique Et De Psychopotence V1 N3 1908 Jan
Revue De Psychologie Applique Et De Psychopotence V1 N4 1908 Feb
Revue De Psychologie Applique Et De Psychopotence V1 N5 1908 Mar
Revue De Psychologie Applique Et De Psychopotence V1 N6 1908 Apr
Revue De Psychologie Applique Et De Psychopotence V1 N7 1908 May
Revue De Psychologie Applique Et De Psychopotence V1 N8 1908 Jun
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Revue de Psychopotence is a French review poised between the clinic and the séance room. Its driving subject is hypnotic suggestion — the schools of Charcot and Bernheim are named, and the text argues for suggestion under hypnosis as a medical resource, even against the pains of childbirth — while alongside it runs the fraud-controlled examination of physical mediums, a medium's very dress inspected for concealment during a sitting. Magnetic somnambulism and clairvoyance supply an older layer, and a genuine but secondary spiritist seam surfaces in its 'spiritisme' and 'séances.' A keyword panel, misled by the ubiquitous French 'esprit,' ranks spiritualism first, but the review's real character is experimental: the scientific and therapeutic investigation of suggestion, magnetism and mediumship rather than the profession of any single doctrine.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hypnotism and Suggestion | Psychical Research and Parapsychology