Parapsychology

A Beginner's Guide

Caroline Watt

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781780748887
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

From premonitions to apparitions, spoon-bending to mind-reading, the paranormal has bemused and mystified humans for millennia.

In this Beginner’s Guide, renowned author and scientist Dr Caroline Watt explores the evidence behind such phenomena. In the last one hundred years, parapsychologists have tried to determine whether it is possible to examine paranormal activity using scientific methods. Packed full of interesting characters, surprising incidents and novel experiments, this book takes the reader on a journey through this fascinating research. Parapsychology: A Beginner’s Guide traces the history and evolution of parapsychology as a science, and provides a thorough and critical analysis of the research and evidence in the field today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Terminology and phenomena
• List of illustrations
• Epigraph
• 1. Introduction: The roots of parapsychology
• Section 1: Testing psychic claimants
• 2. Macro-PK
• 3. Psychic reading, remote viewing, and telepathic animals: ESP outside the lab
• 4. Mediumship and survival
• Section 2: Anomalous experiences
• 5. Out-of-body experiences
• 6. Near-death experiences
• 7. Hauntings and apparitions
• 8. The psychology of psychic experiences
• Section 3: Laboratory research
• 9. Telepathy and clairvoyance in the laboratory
• 10. Precognition in the laboratory
• 11. Mental influence in the laboratory: Physical and biological
• 12. Conclusion: Parapsychology’s value
• Appendix: How to test for ESP and PK ability
• Further reading
• Glossary