Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene
The Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg is a non-profit, registered association and is financed with private funds (see for example Fanny Moser ). It was founded in 1950 by the psychologist and doctor Hans Bender (1907–1991). From 1991 to 2001 Johannes Mischo (1930–2001) was director of the institute, his successor is Dieter Vaitl .
In addition to an exchange with the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, there are cooperations with universities and research institutes in Germany and abroad.
tasks
The tasks of the IGPP lie in the interdisciplinary research of phenomena such as extra-sensory perception , changes in states of consciousness, psychokinesis and the like. a. It is about an improved understanding of psycho-physical interrelationships from a humanities, social and scientific perspective.
It also advises people with exceptional experience. It should not be confused with the Parapsychological Advice Center of the Scientific Society for the Promotion of Parapsychology (WGFP) in Freiburg, which is headed by Walter von Lucadou , who worked from 1979 to 1985 as an assistant at the chair for psychology and border areas of psychology at the University's Psychological Institute Freiburg was active.
Library
The institute maintains one of the largest special libraries in Europe (approx. 60,000 volumes, as of 2014) and a research archive for parapsychology and border areas of psychology . From 1973 to 2014 the library was financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) . From 2011 to 2014 this funding ran within the framework of the specially created special collection area border areas of psychology, parapsychology (SSG 5.21) , which was assigned to the Freiburg University Library .
The library offer, whose task is the "systematic and as complete as possible acquisition of domestic and foreign literature that deals with the entire field of parapsychological and anomalistic research" is scientifically supervised by the psychologist and IGPP board member Eberhard Bauer .
The historical holdings of the IGPP library include, for example, the 2,500-volume collection of writings by the medical doctor, psychotherapist and parapsychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862–1929), who carried out experiments on “physical mediumism” (such as telekinesis and materialization phenomena) the library of the zoologist and parapsychologist Fanny Moser (1872–1953), which contains some rare first editions of works on the subjects of mesmerism , magnetism and occultism .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the information in the activity reports .
- ↑ cf. the website of the WGFP
- ↑ a b c cf. the website of the University of Freiburg on SSG 5.21
Book series and magazines
- Mind and Matter (English-language magazine)
- Crossing boundaries (book series)
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 35.5 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 33.3" E