Towards the Unknown: Memoir of a Psychical Researcher by James G. Matlock

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The Definitive Account of Early Mediumship: A Review of The Heyday of Mental Mediumship: 1880s-1930s: Investigators, Mediums and Communicators by Etzel Cardeña

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Resignation from the Society for Psychical Research by Leslie Price

“…Luca Gasperini's tribute to Bozzano is very welcome in "Ernesto Bozzano: An Italian Spiritualist and Psychical Researcher" in JSE 25:4 (Gasperini 2011). Bozzano's friendship with Conan Doyle would merit further exploration. …”
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Telepathy, Mediumship and Psychology: Psychical Research at the International Congresses of Psychology, 1889–1905 by Carlos S. Alvarado

“…The development of psychology includes the rejection of concepts and movements some groups consider undesirable, such as psychical research. One such example was the way psychologists dealt with phenomena such as telepathy and mediumship in the first five international congresses of psychology held between 1889 and 1905. …”
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Carlos S. Alvarado: An Irreplaceable Landmark on the International Arena by Massimo Biondi

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A Remedy for Historical Split Personalities: In Memory of Carlos S. Alvarado by Andreas Sommer

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Carlos's First Steps in Parapsychology by Alfonso Martinez-Taboas

Subjects: “…psychical research…”
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Henri Bergson’s Haunted Epistemology: Consciousness Unframed by Adam Lovasz

“…In light of these insights, I propose a reading of Bergson’s relatively lesser-known lecture, “‘Phantasms of the Living’ and Psychical Research”, presented at the Society for Psychical Research in 1913. …”
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DIÁLOGOS ENTRE C. G. JUNG E WILLIAM JAMES: AS PESQUISAS PSÍQUICAS by Pedro Henrique Costa de Resende, Walter Melo

“…William James foi pesquisador reconhecido dos chamados fenômenos psíquicos, tendo participado de sociedades como a Society for Psychical Research e a American Society for Psychical Research. …”
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Extraordinary beliefs : a historical approach to a psychological problem / by Lamont, Peter, author

“…It considers the phenomena that have been associated with mesmerism, spiritualism, psychical research and parapsychology. By drawing upon conjuring theory, frame analysis and discourse analysis, it examines how such phenomena have been made convincing in demonstration and report, and then disputed endlessly. …”

Citazioni spiritiche. Dante e la cultura medianica by Francesco Gallina

“…The analysis focuses on two of the most important Italian journals on psychical research (“Annali dello spiritismo” and “Luce e ombra”) and the re-use of Dante in spirit-mediumistic literary works.…”
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"Dreaming While Awake": The Evolution of the Concept of Hallucination in the Nineteenth Century by Shane McCorristine

“…Coming in the wake of the establishment of spiritualism, it will be seen that the Society for Psychical Research proposed that a certain number of hallucinations were "veridical" in that they corresponded to a real and verifiable event in the world - such as the death of a loved one - and could be apprehended telepathically. …”
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Ecrire et souffrir : L’inspiration partagée de Constance Fenimore Woolson et de Henry James by Jeannine Hayat

“…William James, who was a member of the American Society for Psychical Research, probably helped his brother Henry to communicate — or so it appears — in some way with Woolson, even after her fatal accident, or possible suicide, in Venice. …”
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Experimentelle Parapsychologie. Eine Einführung [Experimental Parapsychology. An Introduction] by Stefan Schmidt by Gerhard A. Mayer

“…He is member of the Parapsychological Association, and the Society for Psychical Research, among others. In 2001, Schmidt received the Gertrud Schmeidler Award for Outstanding Student Contribution to Parapsychology, and in 2004 he chaired the 47th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association in Vienna. …”
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Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology of Sociality, Psychology, and Religion edited by A. Calcagno by Renaud Evrard

“…Indeed, she was for me the famous “secretary of the Baron von Schrenck-Notzing” (1862-1929), one of the main psychical researchers of the modern era (Mulacz, 2013; Sommer, 2012; Wolffram, 2006). …”
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A dreamer and a painter : visualizing the unconscious in the work of Arthur B. Davies, 1890-1920 by Gephart, Emily Willard

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