Introduction: Technologies of Mind Reading and Constellations of Testimony (Laurens Schlicht, Carla Seemann, Christian Kassung)
Section I: Technology and Mind Reading
I.I Media
Electrical Potential: Mind Reading as Collaborative Action (Melissa M. Littlefield)
The Omega Factor: The Revival of Mind Reading in the 1970s (Roger Luckhurst)
Imaging the Mind: Photography, Neurology, and Neuroscience (Anthony Enns)
I.II Magical Beliefs, Occult Practices
‘Occult Technologies’ for ‘Mind Reading’ – Hans Bender’s Experiments with the Scriptoscope (Eberhard Bauer)
How Stage Magic Perpetuates Magical Beliefs (Christine Mohr, Gustav Kuhn, Matthew Tompkins)
Section II: Reading and Interpreting the Criminal Mind
II.I Practices of Policing
Debating psychologische Tatbestandsdiagnostik (Heather Wolffram)
Reading the Criminal: Making Visible the Deviant Character in the Austrian School of Criminology (Christian Bachhiesl)
Reading Children’s Minds: Female Criminal Police and Psychology in Weimar Republic and Nazi Regime, the Cases of Maria Zillig and Berta Rathsam (Laurens Schlicht)
II.II Mind Reading, Totalitarianism, and Political Control
Techniques of Mind-Reading in Spanish Juridical Psychology (Annette Mülberger)
Alienation of the Mind: Framing Mass Consciousness Through Show Trials in Early Soviet Ukraine (Yevhenii Monastyrskyi)
Knowing Men: Behavioral Knowledge and Medial Forms of Mimesis in the Former Ministry for State Security (Stasi) (Sophia Gräfe).