The Rouen Spiritist Hospital Research Tradition

Record summary

The Institut Métapsychique International in Paris maintained archives and conducted or sponsored research concerning mediumship, psychokinesis, apparitions, and related psychical phenomena. For this period, it is best treated as an institutional research lead and source trail rather than as one decisive experiment. Its materials can help compare French spiritist traditions with anglophone parapsychology, while also exposing differences in evidential standards, translation, and archival survival. Researchers should distinguish current institutional claims from historical case records and peer-reviewed studies.