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Japanese psychologist Tomobichi Fukurai coined the term “Thoughtography” to describe the psychic project­ion of images directly onto film. Apart from the mediums that Fukurai described in his 1913 book Clairvoyance and Thoughtography, perhaps the most famous exponent of this facility was Ted Serios (1918–2006), who was studied at length in the 1960s by Denver psychoanalyst Jule Eisenbud. But this aspect of an accomplished medium’s psychic repertoire had several precedents in the séance rooms of the late 19th century and, in turn, had its roots in the thriving trade in ‘spirit photo­graphy’ that appeared almost before Frederick Scoff Archer had had time to sigh with satisfaction at inventing the wet-plate process.