Sobre los inicios del espiritismo en España: la epidemia psíquica de las mesas giratorias de 1853 en la prensa médica
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2006.v58.i2.22Keywords:
Table-turning, table-tapping, spiritualism, occultism, animal magnetism, medical pressAbstract
This paper studies the table-turning and table-tapping episode that took place between April and July of 1853 through the Spanish medical press. It is successively analyzed its reception by the doctors, the experiments they carried out and the explanations they gave to that event. Besides, it is considered the repercussions originated by this psychological epidemic: the focusing of the attention towards the unconscious mental activity, the support that it was to the animal magnetism and the impulse that it gave to the appearance of the spiritualism.
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