James Charles Crumbaugh

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.

References

1. Fabry, Joseph B; Bulka, Reuven P; Sahakian, William S. (1979). Logotherapy in Action. J. Aronson. p. 363 ISBN 978-0876683224
2. James Charles Crumbaugh. Pleasants, Helene. (1964) Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary 1946-1996. Garrett Publications
3. Alcock, James. (1981). Parapsychology-Science Or Magic?: A Psychological Perspective. Pergamon Press. 136. ISBN 978-0080257730
4. Hines, Terence. (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 117. ISBN 978-1573929790