Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson
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The growing research on the whole expanse of human experience owes a big debt of gratitude to Stevensons lifelong, conscientious work. Readers interested in the many questions addressed by Stevenson will benefit from his very considerable knowledge and insights, but I would also recommend the book to graduate students in psychology and related areas, to counter the notion that the only way to increase our knowledge of the human condition is by tackling easy problems in a laboratory setting. Emily Williams Kelly has reminded us of Stevensons important contributions and of the challenges still facing those willing to research all of human experience * PsycCRITIQUES * This selection from his writings, together with Kellys informative introductions, demonstrates that psychical research, liberally conceived, has the potential to enrich the psychological and biological sciences. . . .Emily Kelly deplores both the dogmatic adherence of religious fundamentalists to their particular stories of the place of humanity in nature and the uncritical adoption of dubious ideas of magic and the paranormal by New Age believers. She is equally critical of scientific dogma that rejects evidence suggestive of anything that does not fit the current materialist paradigm. She sees the importance of Stevensons work as calling attention to data that may lead to an expansion of scientific understanding of interrelationships of the mental and the physical. * Journal of the Society for Psychical Research * This book shows Stevenson in an impressive way, not only as unflinching researchers, but it also illustrates his unprejudiced wealth of ideas, which makes it very worth reading and highly recommended. It also includes extensive bibliographies for each chapter, a glossary, and the handsome long list of Stevenson's scientific publications. * Zeitschrift fr Anomalistik * An extremely valuable resource. It nicely captures the broad scope of Ian Stevensons interest and expertise, and its absolutely essential reading for serious students of the evidence suggesting postmortem survival. -- Stephen Braude, professor emeritus of philosophy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and author of Immortal Remains: Evidence of Life after Death Ian Stevenson is one of those legendary figures who has played a more and more significant role in the anthropology and psychology of religion over the years, if usually only in brief appreciative references and admiring footnotes. With this wonderful new collection of his essays, Stevenson steps out in front of the curtain, as it were, and takes his rightful place as a major thinker and researcher. Emily Williams Kelly has performed a major service to numerous fields here. -- Jeffrey J Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred A major intellectual figure of the 20th century, Stevensons contributions and influence are destined to be even more profound in the 21st century than during his long and productive life. As Kelly astutely shows, Stevenson did not seek a new science or special exemptions from scientific method for his studies of remarkable evidence for such concepts as ESP or reincarnation. Rather he used the tools of science to show that rigor in these investigations is the best way to develop a fully rational understanding that is not reductive. This book is both a wonder of intellectual history and a wellspring of ideas for those who today continue the effort to reconcile the apparent disjunction between rigorous science and the most extraordinary aspects of human experience of the world! -- David J Hufford, Pennsylvannia State University
Emily Williams Kelly (PhD University of Edinburgh) is research assistant professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, at the University of Virginia.
Introduction General Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 1. Some of My Journeys in Medicine (1989) Part 1: New Ideas in Science Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 2. Scientists with Half-Closed Minds (1958) 3. What Are the Irreducible Components of the Scientific Enterprise? (1999) Part 2: The Nature of Human Personality Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 4. Why Medicine is Not a Science (1949) 5. Excerpts from The End of Patient Abuse in Medical Care (1985) 6. Excerpts from Psychosomatic Medicine. Part I. What We Know about Illness and the Emotions (1954) 7. Bodily Changes Corresponding to Mental Images in the Person Affected (1997) 8. Bodily Changes Corresponding to Another Persons Mental Images (1997) 9. Excerpts from Comments on the Psychological Effects of Mescaline and Allied Drugs (1957) 10. Excerpts from Can We Describe the Mind? (1980) Part 3: Psychical Research - Principles and Methods Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 11. Changing Fashions in the Study of Spontaneous Cases (1987) 12. Excerpts from Comments on Paper by Michael Scriven (1962) 13. Thoughts on the Decline of Major Paranormal Phenomena (1990) Part 4: Research on the Question of Survival After Death: Reviews and Representative Case Reports Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 14. Sources of Evidence Supporting a Belief in Survival (1969) 15. Research into the Evidence of Mans Survival After Death (1977) a. Apparitions Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 16. Cases 1- 4 from Six Modern Apparitional Experiences (1995) b. Deathbed Visions Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 17. Cases 5-6 from Six Modern Apparitional Experiences (1995) c. Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 18. Cardiac Arrest Remembered (1971) 19. Excerpts from Comments on The Reality of Death Experiences: A Personal Perspective (1980) 20. The Case of Linda McKnight (1998) d. Mediumship: Drop-in Communicators Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 21. A Communicator of the Drop-In Type in Iceland: The Case of Gudni Magnusson (1975) e. Cases of the Reincarnation Type Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 22. Excerpts from Reincarnation: Field Studies and Theoretical Issues(1977) 23. Some New Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. IV: The Case of Ampan Petcherat (1973) 24. Three New Cases of the Reincarnation Type in Sri Lanka with Written Records Made before Verification (1988) f. Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Birthmarks and Birth Defects Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 25. Excerpt from Reincarnation and Biology (1997) 26. Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds in Deceased Persons (1993) 27. Case of Hanumant Saxena (1997) g. Cases of Maternal Impressions Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 28. A New Look at Maternal Impressions: An Analysis of 50 Published Cases and Reports of Two Recent Examples (1992) 29. A Case of Severe Birth Defects Possibly Due to Cursing (1989) h. Cases of the Possession Type Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 30. A Case of the Possession Type in India with Evidence of Paranormal Knowledge (1989) i. Xenoglossy Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 31. A Case of Secondary Personality with Xenoglossy (1979) Part 5: Implications Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 32. Excerpts from The Explanatory Value of the Idea of Reincarnation (1977) 33. Excerpts from Comments on Is Outcome for Schizophrenia Better in Nonindustrial Societies? The Case of Sri Lanka (1979) 34. The Significance of Survival for Our Present Life (1969) 35. Assumptions of Religion and Psychiatry (1955) Conclusion: Toward a Tertium Quid (Emily Williams Kelly) Appendix: Publications of Ian Stevenson