| 1961 | Murphy, Gardner: Challenge of Psychical Research. New York: Harper. Selected researches are reviewed to introduce: Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis and the question of post-mortem survival. |
| 1957 | Rhine, J. B. and Pratt, J. G.: Parapsychology, Frontier Science of the Mind. A textbook, reference work, giving an introduction to the field, methods for testing, tables for evaluation, reading lists, and other research aids. |
| 1947 | Rhine, J. B.: The Reach of the Mind. New York: Wm. Sloane, 1947 |
| 1961 | (Also, New York: Apollo Editions, 1961. Paperback edition.) A step-by-step review of the first 15 years of experiments on ESP and PK, beginning with the Duke research and covering main advances. |
| 1937 | Journal of Parapsychology. Twenty-five volumes. Published quarterly by The Duke University Press, Durham, N. C. A technical periodical, but articles are preceded by abstracts in non-technical language. There is a glossary of special terms. |
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| 1961 | Rhine, Louisa E.: Hidden Channels of the Mind. New York: Wm. Sloane. The author reports on the studies she has made on the large collection of spontaneous psi (psychic) experiences, using selected examples to illustrate. |
| 1960 | Soal, S. G. and Bowden, H. T.: The Mind Readers. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co. ESP tests on two Welsh youths, carried out under a variety of conditions. Rewards of money were used, high scoring obtained. |
| 1959 | Schmeidler, G. R. and McConnell, R. A.: ESP and Personality Patterns. New Haven: Yale University Press. Deals first with general case for ESP, then with Schmeidler's ESP results correlated with subject's attitude toward ESP and certain other mental states. |
| 1954 | Soal, S. G. and Bateman, F.: Modern Experiments in Telepathy. New Haven: Yale University Press. Along with a review of other work on ESP, the authors report mainly on their own extensive ESP research done in England. |
| 1938 | Tyrrell, G. N. M.: Science and Psychical Phenomena (1938) and Apparitions (1953) (One volume, two books.) New York: University Books. 1961. The first is one of the clearer introductions to the earlier ESP researches (and mediumistic studies). The second is indicated by its title. |
| Criticism |
| 1956 | Ciba Foundation Symposium: Extrasensory Perception. Boston: Little, Brown. A critical discussion of ESP work held in London in 1955 by a medical foundation. |
| 1940 | Rhine, J, B., Pratt, J. G., Stuart, C. E., Smith, B. M., and Greenwood, J. A.: Extrasensory Perception After Sixty Years. New York: Henry Holt. (Reprint?) This sums up the experimental work on ESP up to 1940. It contains invited criticism and replies, as well as reviews of methods, tables for use in evaluation, and a bibliography on ESP to 1940. |
| Other Books — Since 1934 |
| 1961 | Gudas, Fabian: Extrasensory Perception: New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. Written to aid college freshmen in writing papers on ESP. Contains a wide variety of types of articles, some critical, some philosophical, and some to aid in writing a paper. |
| 1961 | Heywood, Rosalind: Beyond the Reach of Sense. New York: Dutton. A non-technical review mainly of the English SPR's research history, with large coverage of the studies of mediumship. |
| 1960 | Murphy, Gardner and Ballou, Robert 0.: William James on Psychical Research. New York: Viking Press. The writings of James on the subject with biographical and interpretative chapters by Murphy. |
| 1957 | Eysench, H. J.: Sense and Nonsense in Psychology: Baltimore, Md.: Penguin. One long chapter evaluates the case for ESP from the viewpoint of a neutral psychologist. |
| 1954 | West, D. J.: Psychical Research Today. London: Duck- worth. An English psychiatrist who has worked in parapsychology reviews the field critically—giving much attention to mediumship. |
| 1953 | Flew, Anthony: A New Approach to Psychical Research. London: Watts and Co. One philosopher's critical review of the field. |
| 1947 | Tyrrell, G. N. M.: Personality of Man: Baltimore, Md.: Penguin. A review for the general reader of studies mainly in British psychical research. |
| 1946 | Carington, W.: Thought Transference. New York: Creative Age Press. An English (psychologist) research worker's review mainly of his own investigation of ESP. |
Other Periodicals in English, devoted mainly to Parapsychology.
| Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1, Adam & Eve, Mews, Kensington, London, W.8. |
| Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 1, Adam & Eve, Mews, Kensington, London, W.8. |
| Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 880 Fifth Avenue, New York 21, N.Y. |
| Parapsychological Monographs, 29 West 57th St., New York 19, N. Y. |
