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Periodical: Psyche (W. H. Harrison)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Psyche.
1882—1882 Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Editor: William Henry Harrison.
Succeeds: Spiritualist Newspaper
21/1, March 1882 (no. 493)-21/3, May 1882 (no. 495).
Volume numbering continues that of The Spiritualist Newspaper which it succeeds. Harrison started this short-lived venture after the collapse of The Spiritualist. The name change reflected the fact that (as the editor explained) many scholars were reluctant to associate their interests and studies with a journal so closely tied to "spiritualism." See "Die neue 'Psyche' in London und die Himalaya-Bruder," Psychische Studien 9/4 (April 1882): 182-183.

Other Sources:LOC; National Library of Scotland.
Issues:Psyche V21 N1 Mar 1882
Psyche V21 N3 May 1882
Claude-Generated Themes:   Psyche was a Victorian British Spiritualist periodical associated with the publisher W. H. Harrison, and its pages are thick with the phenomena of the séance room — mediumship, spirit-controls and a carefully described spirit-photography sitting in which the camera and plate-holder are examined by an expert before the exposure. Beneath the spiritualism runs a strong mesmeric current of animal magnetism, magnetic 'passes,' clairvoyance and Reichenbach's od, while an early-1880s Theosophical note (Blavatsky, adepts) drifts in at the edges. The tone is investigative and argumentative — Materialist-versus-consciousness debate, antiquarian notes on Mother Shipton — rather than devotional. The panel's hypnotism score is a mediumistic-trance artifact and has been folded back into spiritualism and mesmerism.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritualism