Spiritualism and the New Psychology / An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge

The author offers psychological explanations for spiritualist phenomena, arguing that many purported manifestations arise from ordinary mental processes rather than the supernatural. The text surveys theories of the unconscious, repression, dissociation and complexes and applies them to automatic writing, water‑divining, trance states, suggestion, hypnotism, dreams and hysteria. It considers how honesty, fraud and self‑deception can coexist in mediums, presents experimental and domestic tests alongside believers' accounts, and outlines a possible psychological evolution of mediumship. Chapters combine theoretical exposition with case discussion to show how modern psychology can reinterpret spiritist claims.