Research Catalog

Title

An introduction to the psychology of paranormal belief and experience / Tony Jinks.

Author

Jinks, Tony, 1970-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.

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Details

Description

v, 267 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Unsympathetic psychology-based explanations remain the popular response to supernatural experiences. This study offers a balanced and accessible analysis of various explanations for the paranormal. By providing insight into how these theories are applied, and at times misapplied, to enquiry into the paranormal, this work clarifies the relationship between the field of psychology and the supernatural"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Parapsychology
• Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1: The paranormal as explicable -- 1. Parapsychology -- 2. Superstition and belief in the paranormal -- 3. Witnessing the paranormal: illusions -- 4. Witnessing the paranormal: "everyday" hallucinations -- 5. Witnessing the paranormal: neurological dysfunction -- 6. Witnessing the paranormal: the induction of hallucinatory encounters -- 7. Criticisms of tectonic strain theory and transcranial stimulation methods, and alternative electromagnetic theories -- Pt. 2: The paranormal as inexplicable -- 8. Psychodynamic approaches to paranormal experience: psychoanalysis and the birth memories hypothesis -- 9. Advanced psychodynamic theories: the projection of the paranormal -- 10. Transpersonal psychology.

ISBN

• 9780786465446 (pbk.)
• 0786465441 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011036677

OCLC

733232527

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library