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Book SynopsisA fascinating history of parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud
Trade Review"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
Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France"Apart from offering a wealth of valuable original insights,
Unruly Spirits 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."--
Social History of Medicine"Essential reading for those interested in the history of either psychology or the border sciences."--
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences"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
"Insightful study of the 'science' of the psychic—-physical research (PR)—in modern France."--
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