Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Electrical Potential: Mind Reading as Collaborative Action

Chapter 3 The Omega Factor: The Revival of Telepathy in the 1970s

Chapter 5 How Stage Magic Perpetuates Magical Beliefs

Chapter 6 The Idea of Reading Someone’s Thoughts in Contemporary Lie Detection Techniques

Chapter 7 Reading the Criminal in the Austrian School of Criminology: Unveiling the Deviant Character Through Measurement and Intuitive Introspection

Chapter 8 Reading Children’s Minds: Female Criminal Police and the Psychology of Testimony, ca. 1920–1944, the Cases of Maria Zillig and Berta Rathsam

Chapter 9 Mind Reading Through Body Language in Early Spanish Criminology and Juridical Psychology

Chapter 10 “Talk to Each Other—But How?” Operative Psychology and IM-Work as “Micro-Totalitarian Practice”

Chapter 11 A New Look for Psychology: Reading the Political Unconscious from the Authoritarian Personality to Implicit Bias