Research, dominated by accounts deeply averse to its very subject matter, has been part ofĪn ongoing form of ‘boundary-work’ to bolster the scientific status of psychology. It is argued that the traditional historiography of psychical Hugo Münsterberg as a representative example, this article discusses strategies employedīy psychologists in the United States to expel psychical research from the agenda of Analysing theĬelebrated exposure of the medium Eusapia Palladino by German-born Harvard psychologist Telepathy and other controversial topics into the nascent discipline. Himself a psychical researcher and sought to integrate the scientific study of mediumship, The fact that the founder of academic psychology in America, William James, considered Moreover, with few exceptions historians have failed to discuss the wider implications of Researchers were actively involved in the making of fledgling academic psychology.
Largely unacknowledged by historians of the human sciences, late-19th-century psychical
0 kommentar(er)
