Lives and letters in American parapsychology
Subtitle: a biographical history, 1850-1987
By: by Arthur S. Berger.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780899503455
Subjects: Psychics -- United States -- Biography.; Parapsychology -- Research -- United States -- History.
Description: Focus is on the major figures in the field: Richard Hodgson, James H. Hyslop, William McDougall, Walter F. Prince, J.B. Rhine, Louisa E. Rhine, J.G. Pratt, Gardner Murphy, and Laura Dale. Also included are summaries of the careers and work of 25 present-day parapsychologists, and autobiographies of Gertrude R. Schmeidler and Montague Ullman. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 329-362.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Independence gained and lost (1851-1905); title: Out of the ashes (1906-1920); title: The blue-eyed woman (1921-1938); title: Storms and reorientation (1939-1980); title: Harassment and contemporary parapsychology (1981-1987); title: Brief portraits of contemporary parapsychologists; title: Respice, adspice, prospice