Boston Society for Psychic Research
From Kook Science
| Boston Society for Psychic Research | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1925 |
| Dissolution | 1941 |
| Purpose/focus | Parapsychology |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Key people | Walter Franklin Prince, Elwood Worcester, William McDougall, Lydia W. Allison |
The Boston Society for Psychic Research was a Massachusetts-based parapsychology organisation, founded at Boston in 1925 by former members of the American Society for Psychical Research who were dissatisfied with the direction of the ASPR under the leadership of Frederick Edwards, and consequently broke away "in order to conduct psychic research according to strictly Scientific principles, thus maintaining the standards set by Hodgson and Hyslop."
Selected Publications
- Prince, Walter Franklin, et. al. (1926), The Psychic In the House, Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research
- Prince, Walter Franklin; Curran, Pearl Lenore; Worth, Patience (1927), The Case of Patience Worth: a Critical Study of Certain Unusual Phenomena, Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research
- Prince, Walter Franklin, et. al. (1928), Noted Witnesses for Psychic Occurrences: Incidents and Biographical Data, with Occasional Comments, Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research, https://archive.org/details/NotedWitnessesForPsychicOccurrences
- Leonard, G., et. al. (1929), Leonard and Soule Experiments in Psychical Research: Also Experiments with Sanders, Brittain, Peters and Dowden, Boston, Mass.: Boston Society for Psychic Research
- Prince, Walter Franklin (1930), The Enchanted Boundary: Being a Survey of Negative Reactions to Claims of Psychic Phenomena, 1820-1930, Boston, Mass.: Boston Society for Psychic Research, https://archive.org/details/1930PrinceTheEnchantedBoundary
- Rhine, J. B. (1934), Extra-Sensory Perception, Boston, Mass.: Boston Society for Psychic Research
- Prince, Walter Franklin (1937), Beyond Normal Cognition: An Evaluative and Methodological Study of the Mental Content of Certain Trance Phenomena, Boston, Mass.: Boston Society for Psychic Research
- Warcollier, René; Murphy, Maud King; Gridley, Josephine B. (1938), Murphy, Gardner, ed., Experimental Telepathy, Boston, Mass.: Boston Society for Psychic Research — edited and abridged by Gardner Murphy from La Télépathie, articles in the Revue Métapsychique, and recent unpublished studies. Translated by Josephine B. Gridley, with the collaboration of Maud King Murphy.