Bruce Greyson

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Bruce Greyson (born October 1946) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia , the direct successor of Ian Stevenson . He is a founding member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is known for his work in the field of near-death experience .

career

Bruce Greyson received his bachelor's (major) degree in psychology from Cornell University in 1968 and in medicine from the State University of New York in 1973 . He then went on to study psychiatry at the University of Virginia . He taught psychiatry at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1995 and at the University of Connecticut from 1978 to 1984 before returning to the University of Virginia in 1995.

job

Bruce Greyson has worked and published in the field of near death experience since 1978. Due to his popular and diverse publications, Greyson is one of the best known researchers in the field. Greyson, along with Kenneth Ring , Michael Sabom, and others, build on the research of Raymond Moody , Russell Noyes Jr and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross . Greyson wrote the article on near-death experiences for Encyclopædia Britannica and was chief editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies (formerly Anabiosis ) between 1982 and 2007. Greyson has received numerous press interviews on the subject of near-death experiments.

His Greyson questionnaire, developed in 1983 to qualify a near-death experience ("Greyson's NDE scale"), was used many times and up to 2010 had been scientifically cited more than 95 times.

Selected publications

Greyson is co-author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) and co-author of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation (Praeger, 2009).

He has published many scientific papers in scientific journals on the subject of near death experiences, including a .:

  • B Greyson: "False positive" claims of near-death experiences and "false negative" denials of near-death experiences . In: Death studies . 29, No. 2, 2005, pp. 145-55. doi : 10.1080 / 07481180590906156 . PMID 15822242 .
  • Greyson, B, Ring, K .: The Life Changes Inventory-Revised . In: Journal of Near-Death Studies . 23, 2004, pp. 41-54.
  • Greyson, B, Liester, MB .: Internal voices following near-death experiences . In: Journal of Humanistic Psychology . 44, No. 3, 2004, pp. 320-336. doi : 10.1177 / 0022167804266281 .
  • R Lange, B Greyson, J Houran: A Rasch scaling validation of a 'core' near-death experience . In: British Journal of Psychology (London, England: 1953) . 95, No. Pt 2, 2004, pp. 161-77. doi : 10.1348 / 000712604773952403 . PMID 15142300 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bild der Wissenschaft: Are near-death experiences images from the afterlife? "A bright light at the end of a long tunnel, a feeling of joy and hope: this is what patients who have suffered cardiac arrest told British researchers. Scientists from the University of Southampton consider these reports to be the most conclusive evidence of life after death to date. writes the German medical newspaper. " and "One thing is made clear by researcher Bruce Greyson of the University of Virginia: people with near-death experiences are not mentally ill. The change in consciousness does not lead to permanent damage, he reported in the journal" Lancet "(Vol. 355, p. 460 ). " accessed on March 16, 2014.
  2. ^ The Brain and Belief . Public Radio International . 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2010: "Bruce Greyson is considered the father of research into the Near Death Experience."
  3. ^ Edwardsville Woman has Near-Death Experience . In: Belleville News-Democrat . January 21, 2003. Retrieved February 23, 2010. "[Greyson] called 'the father of near-death experience research' by some ..."
  4. ^ Near-death experience is debated . In: The Tuscaloosa News citing story in Los Angeles Times . May 23, 1982. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  5. ↑ Jane E. Brody: HEALTH; Personal health . In: The New York Times . November 17, 1988. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  6. ^ Anne Longley: A Glimpse Beyond: A Psychiatrist Plumbs the Near-Death Experience . In: People . 42, No. 5, August 1, 1994. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  7. ^ Douglas Fox: Light at the end of the tunnel . In: New Scientist . 2573, October 17, 2006. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  8. ^ Benedict Carey: The Afterlife of Near-Death . In: The New York Times . January 17, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  9. ^ Daniel Williams: At the Hour Of Our Death . In: Time . August 31, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  10. ^ Science Notebook . In: The Washington Post . February 7, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  11. ↑ Rense Lange, Bruce Greyson, James Houran: Research Scales Used to Classify an NDE: the Greyson Scale ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , loaded November 13, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horizonresearch.org
  12. ^ Greyson, Bruce (1983). The near-death experience scale: Construction, reliability, and validity. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease , Jun; 171 (6): 369-75.
  13. ^ Google Scholar, Citations of Greyson (1983) . Accessed February 23, 2010.
  14. ↑ Irreducible Mind ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rowmanlittlefield.com
  15. ^ Information about the Division of Perceptual Studies
personal data
SURNAME Greyson, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist and neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1946