About the Book
In this revised and updated edition of a classic text, contributors present a wide range of research on anomalous experiences, from commonly documented sensations like synesthesia, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences and auditory and visual hallucinations, to rarer and more seemingly inexplicable experiences such as anomalous healing, past-lives, near-death experiences, mystical experiences, and even alien abductions.
The book makes a compelling case for the inclusion of these marginalized and under-recognized experiences as not merely incidental, but essential to our understanding of human psychology.
Table of Contents:
Contributors
Acknowledgments
I. Conceptual and Methodological Considerations
Introduction: Anomalous Experiences in Perspective
Etzel Carde amp ntilde a, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner
Researching States of Consciousness and Anomalous Experiences
Etzel Carde amp ntilde a and Ronald J. Pekala
Anomalous Experiences, Peculiarity, and Psychopathology
John G. Kerns, Nicole Karcher, Chitra Raghavan, and Howard Berenbaum
II. Anomalous Experiences
Synesthesia: A Teeming Multiplicity
Lawrence E. Marks
Hallucinatory Experiences
Richard P. Bentall
Lucid Dreaming: Paradoxes of Dreaming Consciousness
Stephen LaBerge
Anomalous Self and Identity Experiences
Etzel Carde amp ntilde a and Carlos S. Alvarado
Alien Abduction Experiences
Stuart Appelle, Steven Jay Lynn, Leonard Newman, and Anne Malaktaris
Psi-Related Experiences
Caroline Watt and Ian Tierney
Anomalous Healing Experiences
Stanley Krippner and Jeanne Achterberg
Past-Life Experiences
Antonia Mills and Jim B. Tucker
Near-Death Experiences
Bruce Greyson
Mystical Experience
David M. Wulff
Anomalous Experiences: An Integrative Summary
Etzel Carde amp ntilde a, Stanley Krippner, and Steven Jay Lynn
Index
About the Editors
About the Author :
Etzel Carde amp ntilde a, PhD, holds the endowed Thorsen Professorship in Psychology at Lund University, Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology. He has published more than 25 books, articles, and chapters on anomalous experiences, hypnosis, dissociation, and acute reactions to trauma, and in 2 he coeditied the two-volume Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. He was elected president of three different professional organizations and Fellow of APA and the Association for Psychological Science, among others. His empirical, theoretical, clinical, and pedagogical contributions have received multiple awards from the University of Texas and various professional organization. He has also worked in M amp eacute xico, the United States, and Sweden as a theater director, actor, and playwright.
Steven Jay Lynn, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the director of the Psychological Clinic at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a licensed psychologist and a diplomate in both clinical and forensic psychology. Dr. Lynn is a fellow of many professional organizations, and he has received major awards from APA as well as the Chancellor's Award of the State University of NewYork for Scholarship and Creative Activities. Dr. Lynn is a past president of APA Division 3 (Psychological Hypnosis), the founding editor of Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, and serves on editorial boards, including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He has written or edited 2 books and published more than 29 book chapters and articles. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and has been featured in many media venues, including the New York Times and popular magazines, as well as television programs including ABC's 2 /2 , the CBS Morning Show, Eye to Eye, the Discovery Channel, and an award-winning film documentary, Capturing the Friedmans.
Stanley Krippner, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Saybrook University. He was the 2 2 recipient of APA's Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Development of International Psychology. He is a fellow of four APA divisions and past president of two. He has received the Ashley Montagu Peace Award and lifetime achievement awards from the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the Parapsychological Association.
Review :
This book brings home the importance of understanding human anomalous experience as a developmental phenomenon that goes beyond a potential form of mental illness. As psychologists, if we truly wish to understand the human experience, we need to explore the causes, effects, and cultural legacies of AEs. The editors of this book have taken the first steps to pull this information together for us using the methods that honor the outer truth of scientific evidence but do not disrespect the inner phenomenological truth of individual anomalous experience. (PsycCRITIQUES) This is an important book...the editors of and contributors to this volume are to be congratulated on a job well done. (Journal of the Society for Psychical Research)
