From Anecdote to Experiment in Psychical Research.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 198pp. Brown boards lettered in gilt on spine. Index. At the time of writing, Thouless, a Reader Emeritus in Educational Psychology at the University of Cambridge and past President of the Society for Psychical Research was "concerned with the development and the present position of the experimental study of psychical research. His main purpose is to correct the current impression that not much of any scientific interest is happening in this field." In so doing he recounts various carefully monitored studies of ESP, psychokinesis, fore-seeing etc. Faint age-toning to endpapers, else a clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket lightly rubbed, spine faded, not clipped. Now in protective mylar cover). Item #20033
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