parapsychology 的詞源

“超出正統心理學範疇的現象研究”，始於1923年，源自德語 para-psychologie； 參見 para-（1）“旁邊”+ psychology。相關詞彙： Parapsychological。

Similarly, [Prof. Hans Driesch] includes under "parapsychology" such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance, which he regards as mere extensions from ordinary mental phenomena, rather than as fundamentally different processes. He believes that the same orderly process by which unclassified and diverse processes have been systematized,—alchemy becoming chemistry, astrology becoming astronomy,—is at work now,—to make, in place of the mysterious tradition of Occultism, a science which will really be an extension from scientific psychology and biology. ["Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research," April 1923]

同樣地，[漢斯·德里希教授]將諸如心靈感應和透視等現象歸入“超心理學”範疇，他認爲這些現象只是普通心理現象的延伸，而不是根本不同的過程。他相信，同樣的有序過程——將未分類和多樣化的過程系統化——正在起作用，以取代神祕主義傳統，創造一門真正的科學，這門科學將是科學心理學和生物學的延伸。[“美國心理研究協會雜誌”，1923年4月]