It was well received by parapsychologists and spiritualists, being described as "the Bible of British psychical researchers".McCorristine, Shane. (2010). Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920. Cambridge University Press. p. 183. Théodore Flournoy and William James both positively reviewed the book.Richardson, Robert D. (2007). William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism: A Biography. p. 441. It was negatively reviewed by psychologist George Stout who described the concept of the subliminal self as "baseless, futile, and incoherent."Stout, G. F. (1903). Mr. F. W. H. Myers on Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. The Hibbert Journal 2: 45–56. Andrew Lang and Gerald Balfour were unconvinced about some of Myers ideas. William McDougall in a detailed review for Mind also criticised the book. French psychologist Henri Delacroix commented that Myers "experimental metaphysics" was a failure.Delacroix, Henri. (1905). Myers: La théorie du subliminal. Revue de métaphysique et de morale 13: 257–282. Psychologist G. T. W. Patrick criticised Myers concepts as a "metaphysical, not a psychological hypothesis."Patrick, G. T. W. (1898). Some Peculiarities of the Second Personality. Psychological Review 5: 555–578.
It was well received by parapsychologists and spiritualists, being described as "the Bible of British psychical researchers".McCorristine, Shane. (2010). Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920. Cambridge University Press. p. 183. Théodore Flournoy and William James both positively reviewed the book.Richardson, Robert D. (2007). William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism: A Biography. p. 441. It was negatively reviewed by psychologist George Stout who described the concept of the subliminal self as "baseless, futile, and incoherent."Stout, G. F. (1903). Mr. F. W. H. Myers on Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. The Hibbert Journal 2: 45–56. Andrew Lang and Gerald Balfour were unconvinced about some of Myers ideas. William McDougall in a detailed review for Mind also criticised the book. French psychologist Henri Delacroix commented that Myers "experimental metaphysics" was a failure.Delacroix, Henri. (1905). Myers: La théorie du subliminal. Revue de métaphysique et de morale 13: 257–282. Psychologist G. T. W. Patrick criticised Myers concepts as a "metaphysical, not a psychological hypothesis."Patrick, G. T. W. (1898). Some Peculiarities of the Second Personality. Psychological Review 5: 555–578.