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This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 2 February 1972, reproduces a Soviet bibliography on parapsychology (psychoenergetics) and related subjects compiled in Moscow in 1971, with E. K. Naumov named as the contact address. It lists Soviet works on telepathy, mental suggestion, the biophysical effect, dermo-optic sensitivity, bioelectric fields, yoga, autogenic training and heliobiology. It also includes foreign literature, a list of parapsychology journals, and foreign writings about Soviet research. The publication states that its contents do not represent U.S. Government views.
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# PART THREE # PRINCIPAL LANDMARKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT # OF SOVIET PARAPSYCHOLOGY! 1. 1922. Creation of a special commission under the Brain Institute, headed by Academician V. M. Bekhterev, to study the problem of mental suggestion. 2. 1924. Eleventh Congress of Psychoneurologists. Reports were delivered for the first time on experimental investigations of mental suggestion. 3. 1926. Creation of a special commission, under the Society for Neurology, Reflexology, Hypnology, and Biological Physics, headed by Académician V. M. Bekhterev. 4. 1932-1937. Fundamental experimental studies were conducted on mental suggestion under the leadership of Prof L. L. Vasil'yev. 5. 1959. Publication of Prof. L. L. Vasil'yev's book Tainstvennyye Yavleniya Chelovecheskoy Psikhiki [Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche] Gospolitizdat. 6. 1960. Organization of a Laboratory for Aeroionization and Electromagnetic Fields under Leningrad State University. 7. 1962. Issue of B. B. Kazhinskly's book Biologicheskaya Radiosvyaz [Biological Radio Communication]. Published by the UkSSR Academy of Sciences. Kiev. 8. 1962. Issue of Prof. L. L. Vasil'yov's book Eksperimental'nyye Issledovaniya Myslennogo Vnusheniya [Experimental Studies of Mental Suggestion]. Published by Leningrad University. 9. [Missing from text.]
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