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Studies in Spiritism

  • ISBN-13: 9780879758646
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • By Amy E. Tanner
  • Price: AUD $54.99
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  • Local release date: 01/04/1994
  • Format: Paperback 447 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Spiritualism [HRQM2]
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Mrs. Leonora Piper (1859-1950) was one of the most famous mediums who ever lived. She attracted a large following, and even aroused the curiosity of the renowned psychologist and sceptic, William James. Avoiding the more obvious tricks of levitating tables and floating trumpets, Mrs. Piper would go into trances, during which she was allegedly taken over by spirits who controlled her voice and directed her hand to write messages."Studies in Spiritism" is the verbatim record of six seances which psychologist and psychic researcher, Dr. Amy Tanner attended with Dr. G. Stanley Hall in 1909, when Mrs. Piper was at the height of her fame. Although they went in with open minds, Tanner and Hall came away convinced that, while Mrs. Piper may well have been a classic case of a person with multiple personalities who emerged from her unconscious mind during these sittings, she was not above using deliberate deception. This monumental study still stands as a classic sceptical account of mediums and their methods.
Amy E. Tanner (1870 - 1956) was an American psychologist noted for investigation of spiritism. With a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago, she became an "Honorary University Fellow" at Clark University. While at Clark, she investigated mediumship with the psychologist G. Stanley Hall. She wrote the book Studies in Spiritism (1910) which documented the tests she and Hall had carried out in the seance sittings held with the medium Leonora Piper. After leaving Clark University, she became the director of the Worcester Girls Club for many years and represented the local Woman's Club on the Worcester Censorship Board.
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