Fact and Fable in Psychology

by Joseph Jastrow

• Magic, [242], [257], [265];
  • sympathetic, [240], [241], [246], [254], [261-263], [273];
  • correspondences in, [266];
  • see also Images, Names, Numbers.
• Mahatma, [8], [10].
• Martineau, Harriet, [221], [222].
• McCosh, Dr., [346].
• Medicine; see Folk-medicine; see also Superstition.
• Mental Community, [80-83].
• Mental Telegraphy; see Telepathy.
• Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, [14], [25], [36], [43], [180];
  • his theories, [181], [189];
  • his practices, [181], [190], [191];
  • his Parisian career, [182-189];
  • the commission to examine, [185-187], [192], [193];
  • his attitude, [187];
  • caricatures of, [188];
  • his status in regard to Hypnotism, [191], [192].
• Metaphor, in relation to analogy, [248], [264], [270].
• Mind, its influence over body, [26], [37], [38];
  • mortal, [28], [29].
• Mind-reading; see Muscle-reading.
• Miracles; see Supernatural.
• Muscle-reading, [308], [324].
• Myth, in relation to analogy, [270].

• Names, their use in Magic, [243-245], [257].
• Nancy, School of, [230].
• Numbers, in Magic, [258];
  • in relation to analogy, [259].

• Observation, defects of, [87], [153-155].
• Occult, nature of, [3];
  • motives that incline to the, [4], [39], [40], [43];
  • conditions that favor the, [5], [57];
  • persistence of, [46];
  • antidote to the, [46].
• Occult Healing, [25], [26], [33], [34];
  • varieties of, [34], [35];
  • by absent treatment, [36];
  • extravagances of, [35], [37].
• Od, [225].
• Omens, [243], [253];
  • by contraries, [250];
  • in dreams, [255-257].
• Oudet, Dr. ——, [204], [215].

• Palmistry, [18];
  • interest in, [23];
  • logic underlying, [23].
• Perception, [106], [108], [110];
  • as determined by interest, [119];
  • and expectation, [120].
• Personal interpretation of events, [17], [40-42], [56], [84].
• Pétetin, ——, [197], [198];
  • his transposition of the senses, [199].
• Phrenology, [18], [171];
  • interest in, [23];
  • logic underlying, [23].
• Physiognomy, [18].
• Podmore, Frank, [10], [162], [164], [167].
• Prepossession, [44], [120], [126], [127], [130], [131], [151], [162-166], [296], [297-300];
  • a noteworthy illustration of, [301-304].
• Pseudo-science, [5], [20], [21], [24];
  • temper of, [22];
  • practical aspect of, [18], [21], [25];
  • varieties of, [35].
• Psychical Research, the programme of, [50];
  • the trend of, [51], [62], [75-77];
  • interests contributing to, [56-58], [63], [65], [66];
  • the problems of, [67];
  • relation to Psychology, see Psychology.
• Psychology, scope of, [51];
  • relation to Psychical Research, [52-56], [58-61], [64], [65], [76];
  • difficulties in teaching, [298].
• Puységur, Marquis A. M. J. Chastenet de, [194];
  • his discovery of somnambulism, [194], [195];
  • his views and status, [196], [197].

• Quackery, [25].

• Reichenbach, Baron, [225].
• Rydberg, ——, [266], [267].

• Salpêtrière, [202], [228], [231].
• Scherer, ——, [366].
• Science, the spirit of, [48];
  • the nature of, [49];
  • and error of, [69].
• Sensation, and perception, [106], [107].
• Seybert Commission, [140], [141], [158].
• Sidgwick, Mrs., [141], [157].
• Sight; see Vision.
• Signatures, doctrine of, [264].
• Sinnett, A. P., [10], [11].
• Slade, Henry, [139], [140], [141].
• Somnambulism, artificial, [197], [198].
• Spiritualism, [12], [27], [44], [125];
  • manifestations of, [13], [128], [131];
  • origin of, [14], [15], [137], [166], [167];
  • doctrines of, [15], [161], [165];
  • present status of, [16], [18], [169];
  • fraud disclosed in, [140], [141], [142-145], [146], [157], [159].
• Spiritualists, temper of, [16], [17].
• Statistics, in relation to mental problems, [84-86].
• Subconscious, [70], [79], [92], [108], [128], [129], [308].
• Suggestion, [230];
  • unconscious, [68], [174], [186], [199], [211], [233].
• Sully, James, [111], [345].
• Supernatural, divergence between report and fact, [153], [155], [158];
  • conflict with science, [174].
• Superstition, [252], [254], [258];
  • in relation to analogy, [253];
  • in medicine, [259].
• Survivals, [240], [248], [269], [274].
• Symbolism, in relation to analogy, [248], [249], [270].
• Sympathy; see Magic, sympathetic.

• Telepathy, [72], [73], [78];
  • logical status of, [74];
  • evidence for, [96-98], [103];
  • validity as an hypothesis, [99];
  • inclination toward, [104].
• Theosophy, [7], [27];
  • Mr. Hodgson's investigation of, [8], [9];
  • alleged miracles of, [9], [10];
  • doctrines of, [11], [12].
• Thought-habits, in children and savages, [251], [271], [272].
• Triplett, Norman, [117], [123].
• Tylor, ——, [167], [240], [242], [250], [253], [256], [267], [270], [273].
• Tyndall, ——, [135].

• Unconsciousness of defects, [79], [80];
  • see also Subconscious.
• Unknown, attitude toward the, [49].
• Unusual, in relation to analogy, [250], [260].