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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830519003321

Titolo

Extrasensory perception [[electronic resource] ] : a Ciba Foundation Symposium / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Elaine C.P. Millar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Citadel Press, [1966, c1956]

ISBN

1-280-58964-7

9786613619471

0-470-71896-X

0-470-71641-X

Edizione

[[1st paperbound ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

MillarElaine C. P

Disciplina

133.8

Soggetti

Extrasensory perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First ed. published in 1956 under title: Ciba Foundation symposium on extrasensory perception.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION; CONTENTS; Chairman's opening remarks; The nature of the laboratory evidence for extrasensory perception; The strength and weakness of the available evidence for extrasensory perception; Some difficulties in the way of scientific recognition of extrasensory perception; Discussion; An outline of a field theory of organismic form and behaviour; The data of psychical research: a study of three hypotheses; Some statistical aspects of extrasensory perception research; Discussion; Psychical phenomena among primitive peoples

Extrasensory perception among peasant European populationsDiscussion; A case of pseudo-ESP; The simulation of telepathy; Discussion; The sensory nature of bird navigation; Testing for an ESP factor in pigeon homing;  requirements, attempts and difficulties; Discussion; Parapsychology in the modern approach to psychosomatic man; Discussion; Experiences suggestive of paranormal cognition in the psycho-analytic situation; Discussion; General Discussion