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Periodical: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie.
1926--1934 Monthly
Leipzig, then Berlin, Germany. Language: German. Publisher: Oswald Mutze. Editor: Dr. Paul Sunner, with the assistance of Rudolf Lambert.
Succeeds: Psychische Studien
53/1 1926-61/6, June 1934.

Succeeded and continued volume numbering of Psychiche Studien which had been begun by Alexander Aksakof in 1874. The funding for the journal was advanced by Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862-1929) from the fortune into which he married. This was the pre-eminent parapsychology journal in German and carrled contributions by Eugen Bleuler, Hans Driesch, Gilbert Murray, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich, Charles Richet, et al. Crabtree 962.

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Issues:Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1926
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1927
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1928
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1929
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1930
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1931
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1932
Zeitschrift Fur Parapsychologie 1934
Claude-Generated Themes:   Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie (Leipzig, 1926-1934) was the retitled continuation of Aksakov's Psychische Studien, carrying German psychical research forward under the modern disciplinary name of parapsychology. Its dominant concerns remained mediumship and seance-room phenomena, now approached with the experimental rigor and physical-mediumship focus of the interwar period, including attention to ectoplasm and the controlled study of trance states. Hypnotism, suggestion, and a residue of animal magnetism form its secondary vocabulary. Like its parent journal it treated spiritualist material as evidence to be tested rather than doctrine to be preached, and belongs with the international proceedings of organized psychical research.

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