James Charles Crumbaugh Explained

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

Crumbaugh was born in Terrell, Texas. He became interested in parapsychology starting in 1938 which led to a Master's thesis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1953.^[1]

Crumbaugh who worked with the Parapsychology Foundation, carried out experiments into extrasensory perception.^[2] However, his results were negative. After thousands of card runs he failed to duplicate the results of Joseph Banks Rhine.^{[3] [4]}

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.

Notes and References

1. Fabry, Joseph B.; Bulka, Reuven P.; Sahakian, William S. (1979). Logotherapy in Action. J. Aronson. p. 363
2. http://www.pflyceum.org/252.html James Charles Crumbaugh
3. [James Alcock|Alcock, James]
4. [Terence Hines|Hines, Terence]