Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:22:57 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
Mike,
I don't have a copy here at home, but the book you want is:
A century of serial publications in psychology, 1850-1950 : an
international
bibliography / Donald V. Osier, Robert H. Wozniak
[ Book : 1984 ]
You would suggest a book that NYU doesn't have. ;-)
It does sound like an interesting book which I'll have to get through
inter-library loan.
I think that several (mostly short-lived) 19th-century magazines and
journals
with the word "psychology" in the title were focused on (what we now call)
"psychical phenomena." Indeed that very odd division of verbal labor which
we
employ to distinguish the "psychic" from "psychological" arose in the
course of
brokering an end to the long and complicated relationship between the two
sides. (Just like philosophy distinguishes between epistemology and
epistemic
(pertaining to the theory of knowledge vs. pertaining to knowledge itself),
so
should the distinction in our discipline be one between pertaining to the
theory of the mind and pertaining to mental function itself; e.g., memory
is a
psychical function but assessing the adequacy of the "levels of processing"
theory of memory is a psychological activity.)
Well, I would have to take a look at Osier & Wozniak to see how
this is in magazines and journals but from the books published with
a psychology name or theme, they ranged from the traditional philosophical
to the more weird "electrical psychology" and openly religious like
the "mind cure" books (theoretical predecessors to today's positive
psychology?).
Even the "real" Psychological Review, in it first five years, published two
articles on "automatism," co-authored by Gertrude Stein, later to be of
great
literary fame.
Miguel's post with the link to Alvarado (2009) JSE article shows that there
were a number of articles both pro and con on spiritualism/psychicism.
As for Gertrude Stein: was it automatic writing or the effect of Alice B.
Toklas
"Haschich Fudge" or "brownies"? ;-) See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas
Also, it should not be forgotten that G. Stanley Hall got the money with
which
he founded the American Journal of Psychology from a leader of the
psychical
research community (Robert Pearsall-Smith), to establish a journal that
would
be open to just such questions (and then, in an all-too-typical turnabout,
Hall
banned them from its pages in his opening editorial).
Gee, I did not know that he ran a con to get the money to start AJP.
My respect for him has increased. ;-)
It should also be
recalled that Hall, William James, and other psychologists sat on the
founding
executive of the American Society for Psychical Research. Then, all but
James
dropped off after a few years. Hall's one-time student, Joseph Jastrow
turned
into a kind of "psychic hunter," seeking out and trapping frauds by using
all
kinds of subterfuge (like planting spies under tables during séances),
Sometimes he would go specifically after ones who James had publicly
declared
to be authentic.
One wonders what was wrong with James and the others. Whatever it was,
it hasn't gone away; see:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1015106105669?LI=true
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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