Science, the Self, and Survival after Death : Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson

"Ian Stevenson was a prominent and internationally-known psychiatrist, researcher, and well-regarded figure in the field of psychical research. Science, the Self, and Survival after Death is the first book devoted to surveying the entirety of his work and the extraordinary scope and variety of his research. He studied universal questions that cut to the core of a person's identity: What is consciousness? How did we become the unique individuals that we are? Do we survive in some form after death? Stevenson's writings on the nature of science and the mind-body relationship, as well as his empirical research, demonstrate his strongly held belief that the methods of science can be applied successfully to such humanly vital questions. Featuring a selection of his papers and excerpts from his books, this collection presents the larger context of Stevenson's work and illustrates the issues and questions that guided him throughout his career"--Publisher's description This book is a collection of writings, some previously available in books published by Ian Stevenson, and some that were harder to find, having first appeared in papers, essays, lectures, and periodicals like Harper's, the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Parapsychology, etc. Since even some of Stevenson's own books can be difficult to find and costly, this books is a valuable resource, bringing together some of the best of all of these resources into a single volume. It deals with his most famous work in reincarnation, but also addresses many other topics, such as the nature of the mind, psychotropic drugs, telepathy, the placebo effect, and much more. Ian Stevenson was an internationally-known psychiatrist who sought to examine, with scientific rigor, questions usually reserved for philosophy and religion. Featuring a selection of his papers and excerpts from his books, Science, the Self, and Survival after Death presents the larger context of Stevenson's work and illustrates the issues and questions that guided him throughout his career