Fact and Fable in Psychology

Name: Fact and Fable in Psychology
Author: Jastrow, Joseph

Jastrow, Joseph

Hypnotism; Occultism; Parapsychology; Psychology

Braid, James, 205;
        his early observations, 206, 207;
        his historical position, 207, 208;
        his method, 207;
        his theories, 209, 211;
        his relation to phrenology, 209, 210;
        his later writings, 211;
        detection of unconscious suggestion, 211, 212;
        his status, 213.

      Brand, ----, 241.

      Bridgman, Laura, 366;
        dreams of, 347-350.


      Census Office, 301.

      Charcot, J. M., 69, 228, 338.

      Christian Science, 26, 44;
        origin of, 27;
        principles of, 27-30, 31, 32;
        text-book of, 28;
        extravagance of, 30, 31, 32;
        antagonism to science, 33.

      Clairvoyance, 14, 223, 226;
        see Puységur.

      Clocquet, ----, 214.

      Clodd, Edward, 241, 242, 244, 245, 248, 265, 272.

      Coincidences, 81, 83, 88, 90;
        and chance, 84, 97.

      Color, association with sound, 366, 367.

      Conjuring; see Deceptions, conjuring.

      Contagion, mental, 132-134.


      Darlingism, 224.

      Darwin, Erasmus, 346.

      Davey, ----; see Hodgson and Davey.

      Deafness, in relation to dreams, 347.

      Deception, as dependent upon objective conditions, 109;
        as dependent upon habit, 111;
        love of, 111;
        historical aspect of, 112;
        conjuring, 113, 114-117, 120-128;
        as imitation of reality, 116-118;
        as dependent upon subjective conditions, 118, 120-128;
        and technical knowledge, 13, 128, 148;
        analysis of, 129;
        as influenced by contagion, 132-134;
        liability to, 150;
        see also Illusion.

      Deleuze, J. P. F., 217.

      Deslon, 183, 184.

      Dickens, Charles, 350.

      Digby, Sir Kenelm, 261.

      Dorman, ----, 240, 246, 249.

      Drawings, equivocal, 286-295.

      Dreams, sensory factors in, 364, 365;
        of the blind; see Blindness; see Omens.

      Dupotet, ----, 202, 224.

      Dyer, ----, 256, 258, 264.


      Eccentric opinions, 2.

      Eddy, Mary Baker Glover, 27.

      Electro-biology, 219.

      Englinton, ----, 146.

      Esdaile, ----, 215.


      Faria, Abbé, 200;
        his use of suggestion, 201.

      Folk-medicine, 260, 265.

      Fox, Margaret and Katie, 138.

      Frazer, ----, 254.

      Furness, Horace Howard, 142-144, 158, 163.


      Galton, Francis, 338, 366.

      Gassner, Johann Joseph, 179, 180.

      Greaterick or Greatrakes, Valentine, 176-178, 180.

      Gregory, William, 222.


      Hall, G. Stanley, 347, 348.

      Hallucinations, 71.

      Hansen, ----, 229.

      Heermann, Dr. G., 342, 343.

      Hodgson, Richard, 8, 147, 150;
        and Davey, 129, 149, 151-157.

      Hollerith, ----, 301.

      Houdin, Robert, 121, 122.

      Husson, ----, 202.

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