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• Coverpage
• Extraordinary Beliefs
• Dedication
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• A brief reflexive preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• Observations on an extraordinary feat
• Some extraordinary beliefs past and present
• Understanding paranormal beliefs
• Why history of Psychology?
• 2 The making of the extraordinary
• The performance of magic: how it is done
• The reception of magic: how it is seen
• Framing an extraordinary feat (in performance and reception)
• Beliefs and discourse
• 3 The making of mesmeric phenomena
• Framing mesmeric phenomena (in performance)
• Framing mesmeric demonstrations (in reports): reporting the facts
• 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
• 4 The making of spiritualist phenomena
• Framing séance phenomena (in performance)
• Framing séance phenomena (the reception): reporting the facts
• Framing séance phenomena as not real
• The framing of failures, duplications and exposures
• Discussion
• 5 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
• Discussion
• 6 The making of paranormal phenomena
• The making of parapsychology
• The making of mind-reading, c. 1900–1970
• The making of paranormal belief
• The making of the modern sceptic
• Discussion
• 7 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