{"product_id":"common-phantoms-an-american-history-of-psychic-science-9781503612778","title":"Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eS ances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. \u003ci\u003eCommon Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported data, Alicia Puglionesi recounts how an eclectic group of investigators tried to capture the most elusive dimensions of human consciousness. A vast though flawed experiment in democratic science, psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to study their experiences on their own terms. Academic psychology would ultimately disown this effort as both a scientific failure and a remnant of magical thinking, but its challenge to the limits of science, the mind, and the soul still reverberates today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlicia Puglionesi\u003c\/b\u003e is author of the novella \u003ci\u003eKrall Krall\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and the poetry chapbook \u003ci\u003eViews from the National Forests\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). She has published in \u003ci\u003eThe Point\u003c\/i\u003e, Atlas Obscura, The Public Domain Review, and the VICE magazine \u003ci\u003eMotherboard\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524651323666,"sku":"9781503612778","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_405907b1-2a34-45c0-8ffb-96cbf38af17d.jpg?v=1731184704","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/common-phantoms-an-american-history-of-psychic-science-9781503612778","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}