The English music theorist and philosophical writer Edmund Gurney was the first ‘fulltime’ psychical researcher in history. While he was primarily concerned with empirical evidence for telepathy, Gurney significantly contributed to the late nineteenth-century literature on hallucinations in the sane, and the psychology of hypnotism and dissociation. He conducted the first large-scale survey of...
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Corinna Treitel, A science for the soul: occultism and the genesis of the German Modern, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. x, 366, illus., £33.00 (hardback 0-8018-7812-8). - Volume 50 Issue 3
The use of the word "hallucinogens" to classify LSD and other drugs is common-sensical, vague and sometimes confusing. The classification scheme of Jean Delay, first suggested in 1959, is more clinically precise. In this scheme hallucinogens are classified as psychodysleptics (psycho-dysleptiques) because of their characteristic psychological effects: disturbance of mental activity and the...