Article ID: CBB994583797

Physicians and Séances on the Road Towards the Spectacularization of Spiritualism (2019)

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Riding on the wave of the neo-vitalist reaction to mechanistic philosophy, which swept through the fields of medicine and biology in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, a large group of scientists embraced the psychical research that had emerged in England not to be confused with spiritualism because the aim was to study the spirit-phenomena with scientific tools and methods. In addition to French psychologists and psychiatrists (including Richet and Janet), this group of psychical researchers also included German (Driesch and Schrenck-Notzing), Italian (Lombroso and Morselli) and American (James) scholars. Contributions were also made by poets, writers and musicologists who were attracted to the occult. Meanwhile, the fusion of different types of knowledge gave rise to investigations (more or less scientific) into the growing spectacularization of the paranormal, which today is studied by experts in communication theories.

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Authors & Contributors
Wolffram, Heather
Leporiere, Lorenzo
Kyle Falcon
Pietro Terzi
Maraldi, Everton de Oliveira
Sommer, Andreas
Concepts
Parapsychology; psychic phenomena
Occult sciences
Spiritualism
Psychology
Supernatural
Radio
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
France
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Netherlands
Institutions
Society for Psychical Research
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