Pseudoscience and the Paranormal,9780879754198

Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

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ISBN13: 9780879754198
ISBN10: 0879754192
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-02-01
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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Summary

Examines the evidence behind many types of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims and explains, through an analysis of the psychology of belief, why people continue to believe in the reality of the supernatural

Table of Contents

Preface xi
The Nature of Pseudoscience
1(20)
The Paranormal
7(1)
Scientific Mistakes: N-rays and Polywater
8(6)
Why Study Pseudoscientific Claims?
14(7)
Psychics and Psychic Phenomena
21(39)
Spiritualism
21(8)
Psychic Readings
29(10)
Psychic Predictions
39(7)
Psychic Crime Detection
46(2)
Ted Serios's Thought Pictures
48(2)
Prophetic Dreams and Hunches
50(4)
Demonic Possession and Neuropathology
54(6)
Life After Death
60(17)
Ghosts and Poltergeists
60(8)
Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences
68(4)
Reincarnation
72(5)
Laboratory Parapsychology
77(32)
The Nature of the Evidence
79(3)
Early Research
82(5)
J. B. Rhine
S. G. Soal
The Uri Geller Episode
87(6)
Recent ESP Research
93(11)
Psi Theory and Belief
104(5)
Psychoanalysis
109(32)
Freudian Theory
109(19)
Clinical Applications of Psychoanalysis
128(6)
Neurobiology and Mental Disorders
134(2)
The Future of Psychoanalysis
136(2)
The Psychology of Jung
138(1)
Humanistic Psychology
139(2)
Astrology, the Lunar Effect, and Biorhythms
141(24)
Astrology and Astronomy
143(4)
Testing Astrological Predictions
147(9)
Moon Madness
156(2)
Biorhythm Theory
158(7)
UFOs I: Close Encounters of the First Kind
165(19)
The Constructive Nature of Human Perception
168(5)
Close Encounters of the First Kind
173(11)
UFOs II: Photographs, Physical Evidence, and Abductions
184(27)
Photographic Evidence
184(6)
Physical Evidence
190(2)
The Tunguska Event
192(1)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
193(5)
The Psychology of Abduction Stories
198(6)
The Hollow Earth
204(1)
The Great UFO Cover-up
205(3)
The Role of the Media
208(3)
Ancient Astronauts, Cosmic Collisions, and the Bermuda Triangle
211(23)
Ancient Astronauts
211(6)
The Case of the Dogon
217(2)
The Bermuda Triangle
219(9)
Immanuel Velikovsky and Cosmic Collisions
228(6)
Faith Healing
234(18)
The Nature of Disease
237(2)
Faith Healers' Techniques
239(6)
Psychic Surgery
245(2)
The Dangers of Faith Healing
247(2)
The Role of Shrines
249(3)
Health and Nutrition Quackery
252(25)
Fad Diets
252(3)
Vitamins and Health Foods
255(8)
Chiropractic
263(1)
Brain Therapies
264(7)
Stress and Imagery
271(2)
Chelation Therapy
273(1)
Homeopathy
274(1)
Birth Stress
274(1)
Hair Loss Cures and Hair Analysis
275(1)
Iridology
275(1)
Air Ions
276(1)
Current Trends in Pseudoscience
277(42)
Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan
277(1)
Collective Delusion
278(2)
Creationism
280(4)
Cryptozoology
284(6)
Dowsing and the Magic Pendulum
290(3)
Firewalking
293(1)
Graphology
294(3)
Functional Differences Between the Two Sides of the Brain
297(4)
The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
301(1)
Kirlian Photography
301(2)
Plant Perception
303(1)
Polygraphy
304(2)
Pyramid Power
306(1)
The Shroud of Turin
307(2)
Subliminal Perception
309(10)
References 319(34)
Author Index 353(10)
Subject Index 363

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