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Article: William James on Consciousness Beyond the Margin.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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This book focuses, of course, on William James, but it should be read by every parapsychologist. James died in 1910, before the hegemony of psychoanalysis and before psychical research was eclipsed by laboratory parapsychology. This was an extremely fertile flux of ideas flowing between England, France, Switzerland, and America. It was in this climate that James' person-centered psychology flourished. American psychology would have been radically different had it been based on Jamesian psychology, but James lost the battle with the German tradition of laboratory psychology represented by Wundt, G. Stanley Hall, and others.
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