Category: Psychiatry/Psychology
The status of the old-fashioned ghost story has, within the past ten years, perceptibly changed. Formerly, by the credulous generality of people, it was almost universally accepted without reason and without critical examination. It was looked upon as supernatural, and superna...
The status of the old-fashioned ghost story has, within the past ten years, perceptibly changed. Formerly, by the credulous generality of people, it was almost universally accep...
2. CHAPTER IINo department of psychical research is at present exciting so widespread an interest as that which is known under the name of Hypnotism; and inquiries are constantly made by tho...
3. CHAPTER III.As before remarked the phenomena of hypnotism may be viewed from two distinct standpoints--one, that from which the physical and especially the therapeutic features are most pro...
4. CHAPTER IV.While there is doubtless a recognized standard of normal perception, yet the acuteness with which sensations are perceived by different individuals, even in ordinary health, pas...
5. CHAPTER V.If there be any one thing in the empirical psychology of the past which has been considered settled past all controversy, it is the unity and continuity of human personality. Wh...
6. CHAPTER VI.The first of these more accessible conditions to claim attention is natural somnambulism, or sleep-walking. The phenomena of this peculiar state have been observed from time imm...
7. CHAPTER VII.Our ordinary actions, both physical and mental, are, for the most part, subject to our own voluntary guidance and choice. Of this, at least, we feel sure. We work, walk, talk, p...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The subject of Automatism has thus far been illustrated by reference to Planchette-writing alone. It was selected because it is the kind most frequently seen and most easily pro...
9. CHAPTER IX.Automatic messages fall naturally into two general classes: (1) _Motor_ messages, or those received by means of writing, speaking, drawing, or some _activity_ of the body, and (...
10. CHAPTER X.Perhaps no department of Psychical Research is looked upon from such divers and even quite opposite standpoints as that which relates to Apparitions or Phantasms. Many intellige...
11. CHAPTER XI.So far a single class of cases has been brought forward in proof and illustration of our proposition, that _sensation may be produced telepathically_, namely, the voluntary clas...
12. CHAPTER XII.In gathering up the results of these investigations, it must be stated that in showing their relation to science there is no thought of any detraction from the nobility and grea...