On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:12:54 -0800, Miguel Roig wrote:
As the paper whose link appears below indicates, the later 1800s saw an
emergence of periodicals in Europe that explored spiritualism and related
'psychological' phenomena. That paper does not mention The Psychological
Review: A Monthly Magazine ... , but my bet is that it is not associated in
any
way with the APA version of Psych. Review.
I'm not surprised that there were journals both in the U.S. and elsewhere
that focused on spiritualism, psychic phenomena, the "mind-cure", and
the various religious movement that developed in the 19th century
(e.g., Christian Science; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science )
rather, I'm surprised that the APA would use "Psychological Review" as
a title for one of its journals given how recent the publication of the
spiritualist version was. Checking the online catalog for the British
Library, they have volumes 1-5, and issues 1-2 of volume 6, spanning
1878-1883. The new Psych Review begin in 1894 or about a decade
later. I doubt that Cattell would not know about the old PR given that
he worked in Wundt's lab in Leipzig during 1883-1886 and would
have been exposed to European publications both in English and
other languages. As Alvarado points out in the first publication below,
Cattell was antagonistic toward spiritualism and psychic phenomena.
One wonders if Cattell was being supremely ironic or just having a
joke in naming what would be come one of the premier journals
in experimental psychology that denied supernaturalism after a
journal that had promoted it. Imagine the Skeptical Inquirer
going broke and being bought out by a parapsychological group
to publish its articles in.
As the de factor historian of parapsychology, Carlos Alvarado may
have more information about the earlier Psych. Review (you may be
interested in this other paper by Alvarado about the APA's Psych. Review:
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_23_2_alvarado.pdf ).
http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/publicationslinks/Alvarado-Biondi-Kramer-Journals-EJP-2006-paper.pdf
These are interesting papers but I am actually more interested in
reading the early issues of the "new" Psych Review than the old
one.
-Mike Palij
New York University
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