The American Society for Psychical Research’s mediumship investigations

Record summary

The American Society for Psychical Research continued publishing investigations of mediumship, apparitions, telepathy and related claims during the first half of the twentieth century. Its Journal and proceedings preserve reports, correspondence, experimental discussions and disagreements among researchers, including material connected with prominent mediums and the Margery controversy. The society matters as an institutional bridge between spiritualist belief and scientific-style inquiry. Its publications are evidence of investigations and arguments, not automatic confirmation of the phenomena under study.