%0 Journal Article
%T Final chapter, From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia, by Th¨¦odore Flournoy (1900)
%A Carlos S Alvarado
%A Everton de Oliveira Maraldi
%J History of Psychiatry
%@ 1740-2360
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0957154X17734782
%X Among the many attempts to explain mediumship psychologically at the turn of the century were the efforts of Swiss psychologist Th¨¦odore Flournoy (1854¨C1920). In his well-known book Des Indes ¨¤ la Plan¨¨te Mars (1900), translated as From India to the Planet Mars (1900), Flournoy analysed the mediumistic productions of medium H¨¦l¨¨ne Smith (1861¨C1929), consisting of accounts of previous lives in France and in India, and material about planet Mars. Flournoy explained the phenomena as a function of cryptomnesia, suggestive influences, and subconscious creativity, analyses that influenced both psychology and psychical research. The purpose of this Classic Text is to reprint the conclusion of Flournoy¡¯s study, whose ideas were developed in the context of psychological attention to mediumship and secondary personalities
%K Dissociation
%K H¨¦l¨¨ne Smith
%K mediumship
%K psychical research
%K subconscious creativity
%K Th¨¦odore Flournoy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957154X17734782