James Charles Crumbaugh (1912-2001) was an American psychologist and parapsychologist. Crumbaugh was born in

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. He became interested in parapsychology starting in 1938 which led to a Master's thesis. He received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1953. Crumbaugh who worked with the Parapsychology Foundation, carried out experiments into

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. However, his results were negative. After thousands of card runs he failed to duplicate the results of

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. Hines, Terence. (2003). ''Pseudoscience and the Paranormal''. Prometheus Books. p. 117.

Publications

*''Logotherapy: New Help for Problem Drinkers'' with William Martin Wood, William Chadwick Wood (1980) *''Everything to Gain: A Guide to Self-Fulfillment Through Logoanalysis'' (1988) *''A Primer of Projective Techniques of Psychological Assessment'' (1989) *Crumbaugh, James Charles. (1966). ''A Scientific Critique of Parapsychology. International Journal of Neuropsychiatry'' 5: 521–29.

References

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