Foreword by Andreas Sommer Preface by Nancy L. Zingrone Chapter 1: Parapsychology and the Study of the Mind: Changing the Historical Record by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 2: The Role of Fraud in the Development of Parapsychology by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 3: Historical Aspects of Parapsychological Terminology by Nancy L. Zingrone and Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 4: "The Dying Mother:" Historical Citations of Mary Goffe''s Seventeenth-Century Near-Death Apparition by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 5: The Ether and Psychic Phenomena: Some Old Speculations by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 6: Some Forgotten Mesmeric Phenomena by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 7: Human Radiations: Concepts of Force in Mesmerism, Spiritualism and Psychical Research by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 8: Further Notes on Historical Ideas of Human Radiations: I. On Electricity and Other Forces. II. Od and Psychometry. III. The Perispirit and Mediumistic Forces. IV.
Mental Phenomena by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 9: Altered Consciousness from the Age of Enlightenment Through Mid-20th Century by Etzel Cardeña and Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 10: Mediumship and Psychical Research by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 11: Psychic Phenomena and the Brain Hemispheres: Some Nineteenth-Century Publications by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 12: Notes on Early Interpretations of Mediumship by Carlos S. Alvarado, Michael Nahm, and Andreas Sommer Chapter 13: Spiritist Delusions and Spiritism in the Nosography of French Psychiatry (1850-1950) by Pascal Le Maléfan, Renaud Evrard, and Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 14: Historians of Science Explore Psychical Research: A Review of Los Límites de la Ciencia: Espiritismo, Hipnotismo y el Estudio de los Fenómenos Paranormales (1850-1930) by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 15: Mesmeric Mediumship: The Case of Emma by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 16: Early Spiritualist Discussion About the Distortions of Mediumistic Communication by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 17: Introduction to Michael Faraday''s Essay on Table-Moving by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 18: Frederic W. H. Myers, Psychical Research and Psychology: An Essay Review of Trevor Hamilton''s Immortal Longings: F. W. H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 19: Table Turning in the Early 1850s: The Séance Reports of Agénor de Gasparin by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 20: The Influence of Reichenbach''s Concept of Od by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 21: On First Volumes and Beginnings in the Study of Psychic Phenomena: Varieties of Investigative Approaches by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 22: Dissociation and the Unconscious Mind: Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mediumship by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 23: Psychical Physics: On the Borderland of Physics and Psychic Phenomena by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 24: Early Studies of Psychic Phenomena: The Contributions of Psychologists and Psychiatrists by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 25: Classic Text No. 90: ''The Pathology and Treatment of Mediomania'' by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1874) by Carlos S.
Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone Chapter 26: Note on the Intellectual Work of William Stainton Moses by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 27: Supernormal-Pathological Ideas About Mediumship: The Case of Francis Gerry Fairfield by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 28: Experimenter and Other Effects in the Historical Séance Literature by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 29: ESP Displacement Effects: A Review of Pre-1940 Concepts and Qualitative Observations by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 30: Historical Notes on Doubles and Travelling Spirits by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 31: On Doubles and Excursions from the Physical Body, 1876-1956 by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 32: Nineteenth-Century Hysteria and Hypnosis: A Historical Note on Blanche Wittmann by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 33: Dream ESP Studies before Maimonides: An overview, 1880s-1950s by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 34: Modern Animal Magnetism: The Work of Alexandre Baréty, Émile Boirac, and Julian Ochorowicz by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 35: Note on an Early Physiological Index of ESP: John E. Purdon''s Observations of Synchronous Pulse Rates by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 36: Mediumship, Psychical Research, Dissociation, and the Powers of the Subconscious Mind by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 37: The Concept of Survival of Bodily Death and the Development of Parapsychology by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 38: Note on Charles Richet''s La Suggestion Mentale et le Calcul des Probabilités (1884) by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 39: Review of Andrea Graus'' Historical Views of Spiritism and Mediumship in Spain, 1880-1930 by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 40: Introducing and Situating Psychical Research: Eleanor M. Sidgwick''s Perspective by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 41: Classic Text No. 105: ''Report of the Committee on Mediumistic Phenomena'' by William James (1886) by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 42: Unorthodox Concepts of Force and Psychic Phenomena by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 43: Ambroise August Liébeault and Psychic Phenomena by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 44: Nineteenth-Century Suggestion and Magnetism: Hypnosis at the International Congress of Physiological Psychology (1889) by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 45: Panoramic Memory, Affect, and Sensations of Detachment in the Dying: Discussions Published in France, 1889-1903 by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 46: Nineteenth Century Pioneers in the Study of Dissociation: William James and Psychical Research by Carlos S. Alvarado and Stanley Krippner Chapter 47: The Psychic Sciences in France: Historical Notes on the Annales des Sciences by Carlos S. Alvarado and Renaud Evrard Chapter 48: Gifted Subjects'' Contributions to Parapsychology: The Case of Eusapia Palladino by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 49: Théodore Flournoy on Veridical Hallucinations: A Reprint and Historical Note by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 50: Telepathic Emissions: Edwin J. Houston on "Cerebral Radiation" by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 51: Classic text No. 119: Jules Bernard Luys on Magnetic Pathology by Carlos S.
Alvarado Chapter 52: Classic text No. 84: ''Divisions of Personality and Spiritism'' by Alfred Binet (1896) by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 53: Eusapia Palladino Anthologized by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 54: Psychical Research in the Psychological Review, 1894-1900: A Bibliographical Note by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 55: On Psychic Forces and Doubles: The Case of Albert de Rochas by Carlos S. Alvarado Chapter 56: Nineteenth Century Psychical Research in Mainstream Journals: The Revue Philosophique de la France et de l''Étranger by Carlos S. Alvarado and Renaud Evrard Chapter 57: Mesmerism Online: A Bibliographic Review by Carlos S. Alvarado Index About the Contributors.