International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
Periodical:Revue Metapsychique
Revue Metapsychique: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Revue Metapsychique, La.
Subtitle:
Revue Bimestrielle d'Occultisme et de Parapsychologie Publiee par l'Institut Metapsychique International.
Other Titles:
Revue Metapsychique Parapsychologie
Published:
1920-1982
Frequency:
Bimonthly (varies)
Location:
Paris, France.
Language:
French.
Editor(s):
Rene Sudre; Eugene Osty.
Publisher(s):
Felix Alcan; Presses Universitaires de France.
Succession:
Succeeds: Bulletin de l'Institut Metapsychique Internationale; Annales des Sciences Psychiques
Description:

1/1, October 1920-1982.

40 francs, 60 pp.

Suspended 1940-1946.

The issues for 1920 to 1922 were subtitled Bulletin de L'Institut Metapsychique Internationale, and those for 1971 to 1974 Revue Metapsychique Parapsychologie. The journal carried regular plates of ectoplasm, plaster casts of spirit hands and feet, and portraits of leading parapsychologists. This was a standard psychical-research journal, with contributions from all the leading workers between the wars: Charles Richet, E. Bozzano, C. de Vesme, Harry Price, Schrenck-Notzig, et al., and also in later years from Robert Amadou and Serge Hutin. The journal initially was financed by Jean Meyer, the sometime editor of Revue Spirite and a devoted spiritualist, and suspicions were aroused later that Osty had been prevented from publishing an expose of fraud by Eva Carriere at Meyer's insistence. Crabtree 1283.

Other Sources:NYPL; LOC; University of Texas, Austin; ZDB: Tübingen UB; Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; Saarbrucken UuLB; Munchen BSB; Munchen UB; Wurzburg UB; Berlin SBB Haus Unter d.Linden; Berlin SBB Haus Potsdamer Str; Mainz UB; Trier Priesterseminar; Wien Univ.
Issues:Revue Metapsychique Index 1920-40
Revue Metapsychique N5 May-Jun 1921
Revue Metapsychique N6 Jul-Aug 1921
Revue Metapsychique N7 Sep-Oct 1921
Revue Metapsychique N8 Nov-Dec 1921
Revue Metapsychique N1 Jan-Feb 1922
Revue Metapsychique N2 Mar-Apr 1922
Revue Metapsychique N3 May-Jun 1922
Revue Metapsychique N4 Jul-Aug 1922
Revue Metapsychique N5 Sep-Oct 1922
Revue Metapsychique N6 Nov-Dec 1922
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1923
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1924
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1925
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1926
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1927
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1928
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1929
Revue Metapsychique N1-6 Jan-Dec 1930
Revue Metapsychique N2 Mar-Apr 1931 Partial