parapsychology 的词源

“研究超出正统心理学范围的现象”，这个词在1923年被使用，源自德语 para-psychologie；参见 para- (1) 意为“旁边” + psychology。相关词汇：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]

同样，[汉斯·德里希教授]将“超心理学”定义为包括心灵感应和透视等现象，他认为这些现象只是普通心理现象的延伸，而不是根本不同的过程。他相信，正是通过将未分类和多样化的过程系统化——炼金术变成化学，占星术变成天文学——的那种有序过程，现在也在运作——旨在取代神秘的秘教传统，创造一种真正从科学心理学和生物学延伸出的科学。[《美国超心理研究学会杂志》，1923年4月]