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Millais Culpin approaches spiritualist experiences through early twentieth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. He examines how memory, suggestion and divided awareness can influence both the production of unusual phenomena and the conviction of those who witness them.
Chapters introduce complexes, repression and dissociation before turning to water-divining, hypnotism, dreams and experiments performed in domestic settings. Later sections discuss mediums, believers’ accounts and the development of mediumistic behaviour. Culpin explains his own interpretation of these cases and the psychological concepts on which it rests. The complete 1920 Edward Arnold edition includes Leonard Hill’s introduction and the author’s conclusion.