Unruly spirits : the science of psychic phenomena in modern France / M. Brady Brower.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010], ©2010.

xi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : psychical research and French science -- From religious enthusiasm to reluctant science : psychical research, 1848-1882 -- The development of psychical research in France, 1882-1900 -- The measure of uncertainty : the Institut général psychologique, 1900-1908 -- The master and his double : Charles Richet and the literary unconscious -- In the wake of war : the Institut métapsychique international -- The limits of method : the question of good faith and the decline of psychical research -- Conclusion : indeterminacy and the discourse of tables.

Includes bibliographical references and index.