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• Contents
• A brief reflexive preface
• Acknowledgements
• ONE Introduction
• Observations on an extraordinary feat
• Some extraordinary beliefs past and present
• Understanding paranormal beliefs
• Why history of Psychology?
• Psychological knowledge as constructed
• Psychological knowledge is constructive
• A history of unorthodox Psychology
• TWO The making of the extraordinary
• The performance of magic: how it is done
• Effects, methods and misdirection: what you see, and what you don’t
• The role of pseudo-explanations in magic
• The reception of magic: how it is seen
• Believing in magic
• Framing an extraordinary feat (in performance and reception)
• Beliefs and discourse
• THREE The making of mesmeric phenomena
• Framing mesmeric phenomena (in performance)
• Framing mesmeric demonstrations (in reports): reporting the facts
• Framing the phenomena as extraordinary
• Framing the phenomena as ordinary
• The construction of a new boundary between ordinary and extraordinary
• Framing a failed demonstration of mesmeric clairvoyance
• Framing a successful demonstration
• Framing an exposure of mesmerism
• Constructing a psychology of error
• Mesmerism and the constructive powers of psychological knowledge
• Discussion
• FOUR The making of spiritualist phenomena
• Framing séance phenomena (in performance)
• Framing séance phenomena (the reception): reporting the facts
• Managing extraordinariness
• Constructing and deploying expertise
• Framing séance phenomena as not real
• Framing séance phenomena as trickery
• The framing of failures, duplications and exposures
• Discussion
• FIVE The making of psychic phenomena
• The birth of psychic phenomena
• The problems of framing mind-reading: the case of Washington Irving Bishop
• Scientific psychology and the psychology of error
• The case of Munsterberg and Beulah Miller
• Discussion
• SIX The making of paranormal phenomena
• The making of parapsychology
• The making of mind-reading, c. 1900-1970
• The making of Marion
• The making of paranormal belief
• The making of the modern sceptic
• Discussion
• SEVEN The making of extraordinary beliefs
• The particularity of extraordinary beliefs
• Extraordinary beliefs and expertise
• On other beliefs about extraordinary phenomena
• Understanding extraordinary beliefs
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index