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Doug Moe: Raising the dead on film

While researching the history of psychology for her 2002 book on UW-Madison professor and psychologist Harry Harlowe, titled ?Love at Goon Park,? Deborah Blum found numerous references to a leading late 19th century intellectual named William James. Blum, herself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UW-Madison professor, was intrigued by stories suggesting James ? brother of the novelist Henry James ? had lost his mind.