Fact and fable in psychology
Essays by the American psychologist Joseph Jastrow, published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin in 1900, testing spiritualism, mind-reading and hypnotism against laboratory evidence for general educated readers. Plates reproduce recording-instrument traces as thin white lines wandering across grainy black fields, lettered A and Z at their ends, alongside diagrams of optical illusions and ambiguous figures useful as line-on-black graphic marks.
