Varieties of Anomalous Experience
Examining the Scientific Evidence
Steven Jay Lynn editor Etzel A Cardeña editor Stanley C Krippner editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:American Psychological Association
Published:15th Aug '13
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
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)
ISBN: 9781433815294
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452 pages
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