Richard Baerwald (1867–1929) was a German academic

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

, in

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. Towards the end of his life he became interested in

parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...

and

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(as it was interpreted at the period). He edited the ''Zeitschrift für Kritischen Okkultismus'' from 1926 to 1928.Kurtz, Paul. (1985). ''A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology''. Prometheus Books. p. 487.

Works

*''Theorie der Begabung'' (1896) *''Der Mensch ist grösser als das Schicksal'' (1922) *''Die intellektuellen Phänomene'' (1925) *''Okkultismus und Spiritismus und ihre weltanschaulichen Folgerungen'' (1926) *''Psychologie der Selbstverteidigung in Kampf-, Not- und Krankheitszeiten'' (1927)

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