Recently in Japan, 'door-to-door sales' has become of concern because it has created numerous legal and social problems. In this paper, a 47 year old dissociative trance disorder case who presented with possession by God is discussed. Specific types…
Papers in Parapsychology
Parapsychology papers in Psychology, A
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Occurrences of panic attacks associated with belief in genital retraction have been described in the anthropological and psychological literature in terms of culture bound reactive syndromes. Similar phenomena occur widely in West Africa, where they…
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Nightmares are a prevalent mental disorder resulting in disturbed sleep, distress, and impairment in daily functioning. Ela- borating on previous theoretical models for anxiety disorders, sleep disorders and dreaming, this study introduces a…
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures have been used for over 20 years. This modality is considered relatively safe and holds great promise. Yet, MRI has a number of risks. In order for MRI research to meet the Canadian standard of disclosure,…
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Data obtained from a sample of 102 university students were used to calculate Pearson product moment correlations between measures of complex partial epileptic signs, peak experiences and paranormal beliefs. Significant correlations ranging from .35…
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Classic studies of medicalisation point to the 'rise of the experts' as disempowering patients and refusing to acknowledge their expertise in their own lives. More recently, medicalisation scholarship has taken a different turn, arguing that patient…
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In the realm of psychic research, there is still nothing that would deserve to be called a theory. This fact casts doubt on the reality of the entire structure of parapsychology. 26 references. ((c) 1997 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved)
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In response to substance abuse within their community, the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation invited the University of Alberta (UofA) to partner in a collaborative effort to establish a school-based substance abuse prevention program.
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OBJECTIVE: to investigate whether pregnant Swedish women used the Internet to retrieve pregnancy-related information, how they perceived the reliability of the information, and whether they discussed this information with their midwife during…
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The author presents various excerpts from correspondence regarding a former article (see 20: 777) and discusses the various criticisms and suggested improvements. His conclusion, after a survey of the evidence, is "that clairvoyance is an…
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Clinicians, advocates, and policy makers have presented mental illnesses as medical diseases in efforts to overcome low service use, poor adherence rates, and stigma. The authors examined the impact of this approach with a 10-year comparison of…
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OBJECTIVE: To report the odds of developing adverse events associated with antipsychotic treatment among children and adolescents. METHOD: A retrospective cohort design evaluating medical and pharmacy claims from one state Medicaid program was used…
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For the present study the author selected as the best estimate of a subject's ESP ability, that block of trials made at one session which achieved a higher average score than the data of any other session by that subject. The average scores of…
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Vitulli, Tipton, and Rowe (1999) report evidence of age and sex differences in the strength of paranormal beliefs. An alternative interpretation of their data is offered in terms of differential item functioning. It is suggested that respondents'…
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Age differences are examined in reports of deja vu, ESP, clairvoyance, spiritualism, and numinous experience. According to the 1988 General Social Survey (N = 1481), these mystical experiences are somewhat more common now than in 1973, and deja vu,…
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A series of experiments in psychic phenomena were undertaken with a 21-year-old man who claimed to have telepathic ability. An elaborate procedure was devised to render collusion between Transmitters and Receiver ineffective, if not impossible.…
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Alcohol consumption during pregnancy, a known teratogen often associated with drug use and smoking is a well-known public health concern.
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Some nineteenth-century hypnosis researchers did not limit their interest to the study of the conventional psychological and behavioral aspects of hypnosis, but also studied and wrote about psychic phenomena such as mental suggestion and…
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An unknown number of American children claim to remember previous lives. In this paper data of 79 such children are analyzed and compared with data from a larger number of cases in India. Few American children of these cases make verifiable…
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In our article (Storm, Tressoldi, & Di Risio, 2010), we claimed that the ganzfeld experimental design has proved to be consistent and reliable. However, Hyman (2010) argues that the overall evidence for psi is, in fact, contradictory and elusive. We…
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