Katy Price

Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in letters to J. B. Priestley

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences August 28, 2014 Katy Price 2 citations

Using letters sent to British playwright J. B. Priestley in 1963, this paper explores the intersection between patient-focused history of psychiatry and the history of parapsychology in everyday life. Priestley's study of precognition lay outside the main currents of parapsychology, and his status as a storyteller encouraged confidences about anomalous temporal experience and mental illness....