– This paper examines the implications of parapsychological counseling in psychiatric practice. The author reviews the major clinical and historical issues of the relationship between the occurrence of paranormal phenomena and psychiatric practice, and he emphasizes the existence of an important link between these two fields of inquiry and the relevance in an individual’s life of the occurrence...

We show that an alternative quantum theory proposed by Stapp directly violates Einstein causality. This model was constructed to explain a single questionable experiment on paranormal psychic abilities in humans. Version 2.2. 05 NOV 98, submitted to Skepticallnquierer Our comment concerns the article by Henry P. Stapp, 'Theoretical model of a purported empirical violation of the predictions of ...

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The Psychologist T HIS article started life as a review of Test Your Psychic Powers by Susan Blackmore and Adam Hart-Davis (1995). The author of the review, Andrew Colman, felt that one of the issues he wished to raise was not only controversial but also of sufficient importance and general interest to warrant an open discussion incorporating more than one opinion, so he approached the editor o...

We describe a method of quantifying the effect of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) on the results of meta-analyses. As an example we simulated a meta-analysis of a controversial telepathy protocol to assess the extent to which these experimental results could be explained by QRPs. Our simulations used the same numbers of studies and trials as the original meta-analysis and the frequencies...

This paper considers two main questions: (1) What is the relationship between paranormal experience and transpersonal experience? (2) What is the relationship between transpersonal psychology and parapsychology? I look at examples of experiences that may be considered both paranormal and transpersonal and at how these two realms of experience have been associated throughout history and across c...

Prepare the topic of parapsychological contracts, it is one new vital topics that deal with a falls within field parapsychology, which meant beyond psyche, and differs from psychological sciences, are sciences. Its effect on humans. This science was also reflected in law, through lot legal relations were established, including contracts. The issue unseen factors has become common place for cont...

Psychologist Richard Wiseman is a well-known British critic of parapsychology, frequently appearing in the British media to “debunk” psychic research. In his recent (January/February 2010) Skeptical Inquirer article “‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’: How Parapsychologists Nullify Null Results”, Wiseman argues that parapsychologists have tended to view positive results as supporting the existence o...

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, is the Vice President of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of the California Pacific Medical Center. She completed a bachelor of philosophy degree from Monteith College, Wayne State University, a master of arts in social and behavioral studies from the University of Texas, San Antonio, a PhD in social anthropology f...