Jephson, Ina (d. 1961)

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Jephson, Ina (d. 1961)

British artist and expert in child guidance. She joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London, in 1920 and served on the council from 1928 on. Jephson was born in London and studied art at the Slade School. She also studied psychology under Leonard Seif in Munich, Germany, and later worked with children at the Individual Psychology Clinic of Doris Rayner. During World War II she worked with disturbed children at Oxford. Jephson devoted special attention to research designed to set up repeatable experiments dealing with clairvoyance, which became the main subject of a set of articles she wrote for the Proceedings of the SPR.

Sources:

Jephson, Ina. "A Behaviourist Experiment in Clairvoyance." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 128, no. 41 (January 1933).

. "Evidence for Clairvoyance in Card-Guessing." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 109, no. 38 (December 1928).

Jephson, Ina, S. G. Soal, and Theodore Besterman. "Report on a Series of Experiments in Clairvoyance." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 118, no. 39 (April 1931).