About Edmund Parish
Lived 1861 – 1916 (aged 54–55). Edmund Parish was a psychologist.
Edmund Parish (1861–1916) was a German psychologist and hallucination researcher.
Parish is known for producing a dissociation model of hallucinations. Parish was skeptical of parapsychology. He disputed the claims of telepathy made by the members of the Society for Psychical Research. His book Hallucinations and Illusions: A Study of the Fallacies of Perception discusses the fallacies of memory and perception and explores waking hallucinations of healthy persons. It was republished in 2011 by the Cambridge Library Collection.
Publications Hallucinations and Illusions: A Study of the Fallacies of Perception (1897)
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Who was Edmund Parish?
German psychologist and hallucination researcher (1861-1916)
When was Edmund Parish born?
Edmund Parish was born in 1861 in Hamburg.
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Edmund Parish died on 3 June 1916 in Munich.
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Edmund Parish was a psychologist.
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