Travaux sur l'histoire de la psychologie et de ses marges par le psychologue Renaud Evrard
Introduction en latin (!!) et en français ici
et recension à télécharger en PDF (40 pages) ici.
J'ai pu glisser quelques commentaires au fil de son propos.
Merci à lui, c'est très éclairant d'avoir cette recontextualisation philosophique de mon travail.
La Parapsychological Association (dont je suis l'actuel président) vient de publier un nouveau numéro de son bulletin Mindfield, dont je suis co-éditeur. Avec un peu de retard, ce dernier numéro préparé en 2020 est le second qui traite de la question du "boundary-work" (travail de frontiérisation).
Evrard, R. (2021). On being a skeptic. Mindfield, 12(3), 98-100.
De Foe, A., Glazier, J., Evrard, R. (2021). Collaborating and dialoguing. A consideration of the status of psi in science. Mindfield, 12(3), 116-129.
Autres contenus :
This issue is dedicated to the late Erlendur Haraldsson and his remarkable wide scope of research interests, as documented by PA Vice President Peter Mulacz, in an obituary that is both informative and sympathetic.
Genaro Camboim Lula performs an anthropological study comparing Brazilian interest in the paranormal to secular parapsychology in France. Christopher Senn digs into archives to link remote viewing with Pentecostalism and other religious and spiritual movements. Carlos Alvarado covers neglected bibliographies and historical research, exploring a boundary between “brand new” and “old-fashioned” research, which we must unravel to broaden our thinking. Alexander Foe, Jake Glazier, and Renaud Evrard discuss the huge divisions between advocates and counter advocates of parapsychological research, and especially the opportunities to fill the gaps and encourage collaborations.
Nouvel article finalement paru dans le JHBS. L'idée est de visiter la psychologie de Charles Richet, pionnier dans le domaine, trop souvent réduite à son apport dans l'autre domaine dont il fut pionnier, la métapsychique. Ce travail est en partie extrait du chapitre 5 du livre "La légende de l'esprit".
Evrard, R., Gumpper, S., Beauvais, B., Alvarado, C.S. (2021). “Never sacrifice anything to laboratory work”: The “physiological psychology” of Charles Richet (1875-1905). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22086
Abstract
Whilst best known as a Nobel laureate physiologist, Charles Robert Richet (1850–1935) was also a pioneer of scientific psychology. Starting in 1875 Richet had a leading role in the habilitation of hypnosis, in the institutionalization of psychology in France, and in the introduction of methodological innovations. Authoring several psychology books, Richet's works contributed to the recognition of the scientific nature of the discipline. This role is often underplayed by some historians and psychology textbooks in favor of his later position as a proponent of the controversial discipline he christened metapsychics in 1905, which today lies within the province of parapsychology. In this article, we show how his psychological approach guided by physiology, or physiological psychology, facilitated the reception of psychology. We hypothesize a strong continuity between his physiological psychology and his metapsychics, as he himself considered metapsychics as an advanced branch of physiology, and thus also an outpost of psychology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.22086
