---
category: Research Methodology
created: 2025-07-22
date: 1973
description: Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term
  for psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology
  and electronics.
location: Prague, Czechoslovakia
summary: Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for
  Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology
  and electronics.
tags:
- concept
- SovietUnion
- psi
- research
title: Psychotronic Research
updated: 2025-07-22
---

[Psychotronic Research](/concepts/psychotronic-research/) was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for [psi](/concepts/psi/) research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics. In 1973, [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) and [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/) traveled to Prague for the First International Conference on Psychotronic Research. At this conference, Soviet and Eastern European psi researchers were particularly interested in how [SRI](/organizations/stanford-research-institute/) managed to keep its psychic subjects mentally stable, suggesting that some of their own subjects had begun to experience serious problems.[^1]

This field of research was part of the broader Soviet and Eastern European efforts in [parapsychology](/concepts/parapsychology/), which contributed to concerns within the U.S. intelligence community about a potential "[psi gap](/concepts/psi-gap/)."[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.