Table of Contents: Acknowledgments
Introduction: Introduction to Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out-of-body and Near-death Experiences
(Craig Murray)
CHAPTER 1. Early and Modern Developments in the Psychological Approach to Out-Of-Body Experiences pp.1-22
(Carlos S. Alvarado, University of Virginia; Institute of Transpersonal Psychology)
CHAPTER 2. A psychological theory of the out-of-body experience pp.23-36
(Susan J. Blackmore)
CHAPTER 3. The disembodied self: An empirical study of dissociation and the out-of-body experience pp.37-52
(Harvey J. Irwin, University of New England in Australia)
CHAPTER 4. Psychological Theories of the OBE Under Scrutiny: pp.53-72 (Commentaries on Blackmore and Harvey J. Irwin)
CHAPTER 5. Understanding the Out-Of-Body Experience from a Neuroscientific Perspective pp.73-88
(Jane E. Aspell and Olaf Blanke, Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
CHAPTER 6. Out-of-Body Experiences in the Context of Hypnosis: Phenomenology, Methodology, and Neurophysiology. pp.89-104
(Devin Blair Terhune and Etzel Cardeña, Lund University, Sweden )
CHAPTER 7. Managing Anomalous Experience: Meaning Making and the OBE pp.105-116
(Craig D. Murray; David J. Wilde, University of Manchester, UK and Joanne Murray)
CHAPTER 8. Prevalence, Phenomenology and Biopsychosocial Aspects of the Near-Death Experience pp.117-128
(John Belanti,Australia; Karuppiah Jagadheesan, Australia and Mahendra Perera, Albert Road Clinic, Melbourne, Australia)
CHAPTER 9. Near-Death Experiences, Out-of-body Experiences and Social Scientific Paradigms pp.129-144
(James McClenon, Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center)
CHAPTER 10. The ‘Urashima Effect’: A cultural illusion? A Japanese Perspective on Death, Life and the Near-Death Experiences. pp.145-158
(Ornella Corazza, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)
CHAPTER 11. Out-of-body and Near-Death Experiences as Evidence for Externalization or Survival pp.159-170
(John Palmer, Rhine Research Center)
CHAPTER 12. Endless Consciousness: A Concept Based on Scientific Studies on Near-Death Experience pp.171-186
(Pim van Lommel, Hospital Rijnstate, Arnhem, the Netherlands)
CHAPTER 13. Near-Death Experiences and the Brain pp.187-204
(Christopher C. French, Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths)
CHAPTER 14. Finding Meaning in Near-death Experiences pp.205-220
(Craig D. Murray, David J. Wilde and Joanne Murray)
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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