{"product_id":"unruly-spirits-9780252035647","title":"Unruly Spirits","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating history of parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"M. Brady Brower clearly demonstrates the importance of the French strain of psychical research and shows it to be a crucial and unjustly neglected episode in the story of modern psychology. What he has uncovered should provoke a searching revision of the standard account of the resistance psychoanalysis faced in fin-de-siècle and interwar France.\"--John Warne Monroe, author of \u003ci\u003eLaboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Apart from offering a wealth of valuable original insights, \u003ci\u003eUnruly Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e transports findings of French historians of psychology and physical research ... revealing the close links and strong overlaps between late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French psychology and physical research. . . . Fascinating and important.\"--\u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for those interested in the history of either psychology or the border sciences.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brower's book analyzes deftly the history of this troubled transition from a 'philosophy of the mind to a science of the mind in modern France.'\"--Bulletin of the History of Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\"Insightful study of the 'science' of the psychic—-physical research (PR)—in modern France.\"--\u003ci\u003eISIS\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400425611607,"sku":"9780252035647","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252035647.jpg?v=1730470654","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unruly-spirits-9780252035647","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}