Attempting science: The creation and early development of the Institut métapsychique international in Paris, 1919-1931

Lachapelle, Sofie

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“…Some phenomena that seem to counteract the common sense of reality are genuine calls for collaboration between science and religion. Since late XIX century, renowned scientists from Europe and United States became interested in anomalous phenomena of consciousness [3]. The psychic research societies aimed at the application of scientific methodology to study such matter.…”

Section: Religion and Sciencementioning

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Fading Away the Borders Between Religion and Science: The Proposal from the Spiritist Medical Model

Saad¹,

Medeiros²,

Mosini³

2017

J Clin Res Bioeth

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There is a common notion that science and religion are in conflict and have little in common. However, authorities from both sides timidly rehearse an approach intention. Some phenomena that seem to counteract the common sense of reality are genuine calls for collaboration between science and religion. Spiritism (not synonym of spiritualism) was conceived as science, philosophy, and religion, all together. The form into which Spiritism has evolved in Brazil is very peculiar, taking contours of a religious denomination. Specific therapeutic approaches were developed to prevent and to restore a balanced spiritual-energetic state. Thus, most adepts search spiritist centres due to physical and mental health problems. The interest on the interface between medicine and the Spiritist Doctrine led to the creation of the Spiritist Medical Association. The Spiritist Medical Model aims at a change to a more humanized medicine, with a pretension of presenting to the world a renewed vision of the human being. Thus, it also brought the philosophical dictates from Spiritism to value implications of healthcare practices. Spiritism has many arguments with potential do fill some gaps about the human nature, which can contribute to understanding many unexplained or misinterpreted phenomena. Medical debates may be enriched with its principles, with potential to contribute for a paradigm shift on medicine and science. Currently, scholar researchers linked to this ideal are trying to sew all these fields in a continuous fabric. Who knows if, in the next 50 years, this constant dialog among science, philosophy, religion, medicine and bioethics will fade off the borders of these disciplines? At this point, the human knowledge will be facing a real paradigm shift.

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Section: Religion and Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Fading Away the Borders Between Religion and Science: The Proposal from the Spiritist Medical Model

Saad¹,

Medeiros²,

Mosini³

2017

J Clin Res Bioeth

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“…Although the initial development of psychical research in Germany during the late 19th century was an attempt to expand the frontiers of psychology to counter the prevailing materialistic Weltenschauung, it trespassed on the territory and epistemic authority of other disciplines, leading to counter-attacks, thus helping both their practitioners and their opponents to highlight, negotiate and remedy methodological and epistemological problems within contemporary science. Lachapelle (2005), in discussing psychical research in France in the 1920s, takes a slightly different view. She suggests that psychical research is destined to remain at the margins.…”

Section: Academic Psychology and Psychical Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spooks and spoofs

Valentine

2012

History of the Human Sciences

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This article describes the relations between academic psychology and psychical research in Britain during the inter-war period, in the context of the fluid boundaries between mainstream psychology and both psychical research and popular psychology. Specifically, the involvement with Harry Price of six senior academic psychologists: William McDougall, William Brown, J. C. Flugel, Cyril Burt, C. Alec Mace and Francis Aveling, is described. Personal, metaphysical and socio-historical factors in their collaboration are discussed. It is suggested that the main reason for their mutual attraction was their common engagement in a delicate balancing act between courting popular appeal on the one hand and the assertion of scientific expertise and authority on the other. Their interaction is typical of the boundary work performed at this transitional stage in the development of psychology as a discipline.

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“…It created an organizational body on the model of the professional scientific association, as had both the Psychological Society and the SPR (cf. Lachapelle, 2005, pp. 2–3).…”

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“…Unfortunately for the IMI, the rather aggressive internationalization campaign, coupled with the somewhat arrogant attitude that this organization was the standard bearer of true, scientific psychical research, was seen more as a threat than an invitation by their counterparts abroad. As Lachapelle (2005, pp. 18–22) convincingly demonstrates, this was the primary reason why the IMI's project had failed by the 1930s.…”

Section: Network Boundary‐work and Professionalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A nice arrangement of heterodoxies: William Mcdougall and the professionalization of psychical research

Asprem

2010

J History Behavioral Science

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is usually considered the founder of modern professional parapsychology. Through his work at Duke University in the 1930s, he established a working research program (in the Lakatosian sense) for the controversial discipline, setting down various methodological standards and experimental procedures. Despite Rhine's clear and important influence on modern parapsychology, this article argues that he came to a stage that had already been set. Adopting recent theoretical advances in the study of scientific professionalization, it is argued that Rhine's mentor, the controversial British psychologist William McDougall (1871McDougall ( -1938, has a stronger claim to the parenthood of modern parapsychology than is typically recognized. Following McDougall's attempts to carve out and establish an institutional space for professionalized psychical research in 1920s America, furthermore, takes us to little explored connections between psychical research, Lamarckism, neo-vitalism and policies of eugenics.

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Attempting science: The creation and early development of the Institut métapsychique international in Paris, 1919-1931

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Fading Away the Borders Between Religion and Science: The Proposal from the Spiritist Medical Model

Fading Away the Borders Between Religion and Science: The Proposal from the Spiritist Medical Model

Spooks and spoofs

A nice arrangement of heterodoxies: William Mcdougall and the professionalization of psychical research

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