Ian Stevenson
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Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher
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Ian Stevenson's Degrees
- Bachelors English Literature McGill University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ian Pretyman Stevenson was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years. He was chair of their department of psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death in 2007.
Ian Stevenson's Published Works
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Published Works
- The phenomenology of near-death experiences. (1980) (163)
- Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1966) (138)
- Features of "near-death experience" in relation to whether or not patients were near death (1990) (137)
- Near-Death Experiences in India: A Preliminary Report (1986) (95)
- Recovery from sexual deviations through overcoming non-sexual neurotic responses. (1960) (79)
- Cases of the reincarnation type (1975) (62)
- Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects (1997) (61)
- Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (1997) (55)
- Do Prevailing Societal Models Influence Reports of Near-Death Experiences?: A Comparison of Accounts Reported Before and After 1975 (2006) (53)
- Near-death experiences. Relevance to the question of survival after death. (1979) (50)
- American Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives (1983) (49)
- Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past. (1997) (49)
- THE EXPLANATORY VALUE OF THE IDEA OF REINCARNATION (1977) (48)
- Do we need a new word to supplement "hallucination"? (1983) (46)
- Are Persons Reporting “Near-Death Experiences” Really near Death? A Study of Medical Records (1990) (35)
- RESEARCH INTO THE EVIDENCE OF MAN'S SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH: A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL SURVEY WITH A SUMMARY OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS (1977) (34)
- Three new cases of the reincarnation type in Sri Lanka with written records made before verification. (1988) (27)
- Involuntary Memories During Severe Physical Illness or Injury (1995) (26)
- The phenomenon of claimed memories of previous lives: possible interpretations and importance. (2000) (26)
- The Belief in Reincarnation Among the Igbo of Nigeria1 (1985) (25)
- Characteristics of Cases of the Reincarnation Type among the Igbo of Nigeria (1986) (25)
- The Evidence for Survival from Claimed Memories of Former Incarnations The Winning Essay of the Contest in Memory of William James (1961) (24)
- Does the socio-psychological hypothesis explain cases of the reincarnation type? (1998) (24)
- Some bodily malformations attributed to previous lives (2005) (23)
- PROCESSES OF "SPONTANEOUS" RECOVERY FROM THE PSYCHONEUROSES (1961) (23)
- Twelve Cases in Lebanon and Turkey (1980) (21)
- Can Experiences Near Death Furnish Evidence of Life after Death? (2000) (21)
- Xenoglossy: A review and report of a case (1974) (20)
- A case of the psychotherapist's fallacy: hypnotic regression to "previous lives". (1994) (19)
- Telepathic Impressions: A Review and Report of Thirty-Five New Cases (1970) (19)
- A CASE OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY ILLUSTRATING THE TRANSITION FROM ROLE‐PLAYING (1961) (19)
- Is the human personality more plastic in infancy and childhood. (1957) (17)
- THE METABOLISM OF MESCALINE WITH A NOTE ON CORRELATIONS BETWEEN METABOLISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS (1959) (16)
- Children of Myanmar who behave like Japanese soldiers: A possible third element in personality (2005) (16)
- THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN INTERPRETATION OF GENDER DYSPHORIA: AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE REPORT (1977) (16)
- Indian cases of the reincarnation type. Two generations apart (1987) (15)
- Can children be stopped from speaking about previous lives? Some further analyses of features in cases of the reincarnation type. (1990) (15)
- Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal ESP (1976) (15)
- Paranormal Foreknowledge: Problems and Perplexities (1983) (15)
- The psychiatric examination (1969) (15)
- Unusual Play in Young Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives (2004) (14)
- Esp—A Scientific Evaluation (1966) (13)
- Half a career with the paranormal (2007) (13)
- A case of secondary personality with xenoglossy. (1979) (12)
- The Absence of Tunnel Sensations in Near-Death Experiences from India (1994) (12)
- Psychic Phenomena Following Near-Death Experiences : An Australian Study (2005) (11)
- Rebirth as Doctrine and Experience: Essays and Case Studies (1975) (11)
- Characteristics of Cases of the Reincarnation Type in Turkey and their Comparison with Cases in Two other Cultures (1970) (11)
- 14. Cultural Patterns in Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation among the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska (1994) (11)
- The Belief and Cases Related to Reincarnation among the Haida (1975) (10)
- Do Cases of the Reincarnation Type Show Similar Features Over Many Years? A Study of Turkish Cases a Generation Apart (1999) (10)
- Ten cases in Sri Lanka (1977) (10)
- Deception and self-deception in cases of the reincarnation type: seven illustrative cases in Asia (1988) (10)
- Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy (1985) (9)
- The Similarity of Features of Reincarnation Type Cases over Many Years: A Third Study (2003) (9)
- Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. 1: Ten Cases in India (1975) (8)
- A survey of spontaneous psychical experiences in school children of Uttar Pradesh, India. (1968) (8)
- "Psychic surgery" in the Philippines as a form of group hypnosis. (1988) (7)
- Twelve cases in Thailand and Burma (1983) (7)
- European Cases of the Reincarnation Type (2003) (7)
- Thoughts on the decline of major paranormal phenomena (1990) (7)
- Ten Cases in India (1975) (7)
- SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA AND REINCARNATION BELIEFS IN NIGERIA (1983) (7)
- Comments on “The Reality of Death Experiences: A Personal Perspective” (1980) (6)
- Variations in the secretion of bronchial mucus during periods of life stress. (1949) (6)
- An experiment with the Icelandic medium Hafsteinn Bjornsson. (1974) (6)
- Three Cases Of The Reincarnation Type In India (1977) (6)
- Two correlates of violent death in cases of the rein-carnation type (1988) (6)
- Cases of the Reincarnation Type: Volume IV ,Twelve Cases in Thailand and Burma (1983) (6)
- Possession and Exorcism: An Essay Review (1995) (6)
- Near-death experience (1991) (5)
- The antidotal action of sodium succinate in the mescaline psychosis. (1957) (5)
- Comments on "The psychology of life after death." (1981) (5)
- The Stability of Assessments of Paranormal Connections in Reincarnation-Type Cases (2004) (5)
- A review and analysis of «unsolved» cases of the reincarnation type. I: Introduction and illustrative case reports (1983) (5)
- Telepathy in shared dreams? (1979) (5)
- The Contribution of Apparitions to the Evidence for Survival 1 (2016) (4)
- The Emotional Significance of Imaginary Beings (1971) (4)
- COMMENTS ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MESCALINE AND ALLIED DRUGS (1957) (4)
- A further note on the mechanism of the antidotal action of sodium succinate in the mescaline psychosis. (1958) (4)
- RECOVERY FROM DEMENTING PSYCHOSES OF OLD AGE (1955) (3)
- Was the attempt to identify parapsychology as a separate field of science misguided (1988) (3)
- FACT AND THEORY IN PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE (1953) (3)
- Other lives, other selves: A Jungian psychotherapist discovers past lives (1990) (3)
- Experimental Parapsychology: A Review and Interpretation (1967) (3)
- Guest editorial: changing fashions in the study of spontaneous cases (1987) (2)
- Why investigate spontaneous cases (1987) (2)
- Past lives of twins (1999) (2)
- Ropelike Birthmarks on Children Who Claim to Remember Past Lives (2001) (2)
- Investigating the paranormal (1986) (2)
- Previous neurobiological study of Holocaust survivors. (1996) (2)
- Two tests of survival after death: report on negative results (1989) (2)
- Bronchial lavage for bronchiectasis: a preliminary report of a simplified technique. (1947) (2)
- The Flora Levy Lecture in the Humanities 1989 Some of My Journeys in Medicine (2003) (1)
- Consistency in the Psychologic Reaction to Mescaline (1961) (1)
- THE PRESERVATION OF A VANISHING SPECIES: THE PART-TIME CHAIRMAN. (1963) (1)
- The Question of Survival After Death-Reply (1979) (1)
- What Are the Irreducible Components of the Scientific Enterprise? (2004) (1)
- Discovering the History of Psychiatry (1996) (1)
- [Comment on S. S. Stevens Review of Hansel's book: "ESP: A Scientific Evaluation"]. (1967) (1)
- At the Hour of Death (1979) (1)
- Difficulties confronting investigators of «psychic surgery» in the Philippines (1987) (1)
- Parapsychology and the Nature of Life (1979) (1)
- Criteria for Evaluation of Results in Psychotherapy (1964) (1)
- Prolonged reactions to mescaline (1960) (0)
- Explaining the results of examinations to patients. 1. (1962) (0)
- Ghost Quarters: First Dream of The Opium Confessions (2009) (0)
- Cat Phobia (1960) (0)
- Comments on “Is Outcome for Schizophrenia Better in Nonindustrial Societies? The Case of Sri Lanka” (1979) (0)
- Ian Stevenson: Reminiscences and Observations (2008) (0)
- Book review (1999) (0)
- The Psychology of Personality (1960) (0)
- Explaining the results of examinations to patients. 2. (1962) (0)
- Psychological aspects of prejudice with special reference to desegregation. (1958) (0)
- CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPIES. (1964) (0)
- The ESP Experience: A Psychiatric Validation (1980) (0)
- The Possible Nature of Post-Mortem States : A Discussion (2008) (0)
- A Case of the Reincarnation Type in Ceylon: The Case of Disna Samarasinghe (1970) (0)
- REPLY TO THE COMMENTS OF DR. LIEF AND DR. ULLMAN (1977) (0)
- DETECTION of the dangerous paranoid patient. (1952) (0)
- Death, Near-Death Experiences, “Near-Death Experiences” (1980) (0)
- Assumptions of religion and psychiatry (1969) (0)
- Summary Report: Measuring Personality Change (A). (1962) (0)
- PSYCHICAL RESEARCH: Editor, The American Journal of Psychiatry: (1958) (0)
- 11 The Substantiality of Spontaneous Cases 1 (2016) (0)
- A Case of Severe Birth Defects Possibly Due to Cursing (2009) (0)
- Hughes' Outline of Modern Psychiatry, 4th revised ed. (1998) (0)
- The role of wishes in the origin of dreams and the psychoses (1961) (0)
- ESSAY REVIEW Ian Stevenson’s Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation: An Historical Review and Assessment (2011) (0)
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