Fact and Fable in Psychology
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The preface describes public interest in unusual psychic experiences as seemingly more readily guided by promises of startling revelations than by cautious professional study. The discussion of the occult connects its historical growth with weak knowledge of nature, traditional authority and conditions hostile to independent thought. The account describes pseudo-science flourishing without true knowledge, while imaginative speculation and unfounded belief occupied the place intended for inductive reason.
Friedrich Anton Mesmer is described as moving from theology to law and then to medicine. Mesmer defined animal magnetism as a quality making animal bodies susceptible to influences from heaven and earth. The discussion of dreams asks whether and how people who became blind after a remembered period of sight distinguish those periods in dream imagery.
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- Joseph Jastrow
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- 183
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