Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843, in Keswick, Cumberland 17 January 1901, in Rome) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

Charlie Dunbar Broad (30 December 1887 11 March 1971), usually cited as C. D. Broad, was an English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philosophical aspects of psychical research.

Pursuant to the draft UN Declaration on Elimination of Violence Against Women, violence is considered to be any act of violence based on gender, which results or may result in physical, sexual of psychical injury or suffering of woman .

Soviet pedology is traditionally thought to be founded by the efforts of Vladimir Bekhterev in particular, in 1918 he founded the Institute of Pedology as part of psychological institutions united into the Institute for Study of Brain and Psychical Activity.