Varieties of Anomalous Experience

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.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsI. Conceptual and Methodological ConsiderationsIntroduction: Anomalous Experiences in Perspective Etzel Carde amp ntilde a, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley KrippnerResearching States of Consciousness and Anomalous Experiences Etzel Carde amp ntilde a and Ronald J. PekalaAnomalous Experiences, Peculiarity, and Psychopathology John G. Kerns, Nicole Karcher, Chitra Raghavan, and Howard BerenbaumII. Anomalous ExperiencesSynesthesia: A Teeming Multiplicity Lawrence E. MarksHallucinatory Experiences Richard P. BentallLucid Dreaming: Paradoxes of Dreaming Consciousness Stephen LaBergeAnomalous Self and Identity Experiences Etzel Carde amp ntilde a and Carlos S. AlvaradoAlien Abduction Experiences Stuart Appelle, Steven Jay Lynn, Leonard Newman, and Anne MalaktarisPsi-Related Experiences Caroline Watt and Ian TierneyAnomalous Healing Experiences Stanley Krippner and Jeanne AchterbergPast-Life Experiences Antonia Mills and Jim B. TuckerNear-Death Experiences Bruce GreysonMystical Experience David M. WulffAnomalous Experiences: An Integrative Summary Etzel Carde amp ntilde a, Stanley Krippner, and Steven Jay LynnIndexAbout the Editors

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)