Author: JUNG, C.G.
Title: Zur Psychologie und Pathologie sogenannter occulter Phänomene. Eine psychiatrische Studie.
Description: Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von Oswald Mutze, 1902. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. cloth, spine gilt lettered. (Libr. sign. on upper cover). (IV, 121, I pp.). (Ex libris 'Smith Ely Jelliffe' on upper paste down; original decorated endpapers; 'Jelliffe' in ink on title page; blindst. libr. st. on title). First edition. Jung's Thesis. Norman Coll. I, 1184: 'Jung's doctoral thesis was based on data gathered from séances held by some of his relatives, which played a part in inspiring Jung's lasting interest in the paranormal.': DSB VII, pp. 189 - 193: The data Jung collected from the séances was the subject of his doctoral thesis, delivered at the faculty of medicine of the University of Zürich, in which the influence of Pierre Janet, ..., is first recorded. ... The data from the séances ... marked a turning point in [Jung's] scientific and professional life, for he discovered that psychiatry held the best hope of understanding what he had observed.':

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