Psychiatry & psychology (7 pages found in this category)


Brocken spectre

Optical illusion in which the apparently greatly magnified shadow of an observer, when projected onto a surrounding mist, interferes with the observer’s depth perception.

Fantascope

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Grey Man

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Orgone

Widely discredited theory of universal life energy developed by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957).

Orgonomy

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Phantasmascope

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Phenakistoscope

Optical toy producing the illusion of moving images, popular during the Victorian era.