Bruce Greyson
(Charles) Bruce Greyson (born October 1946) is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond (2021), co-author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences (2009). Greyson has written many journal articles, and has given media interviews, on the subject of near death experiences.
Academic appointments[]
Greyson is Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and the former director of The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS),[1] formerly the Division of Personality Studies, at the University of Virginia. He is also a Professor of Psychiatric Medicine in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, at the University of Virginia.
Research work[]
Greyson is a researcher in the field of near-death studies and has been called the father of research in near-death experiences.[2][3] Greyson, along with Kenneth Ring, Michael Sabom, and others, built on the research of Raymond Moody, Russell Noyes Jr and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Greyson's scale to measure the aspects of near-death experiences[4] has been widely used, being cited over 450 times as of early 2021.[5] He also devised a 19-item scale to assess experience of kundalini, the Physio-Kundalini Scale.[6]
Greyson wrote the overview of Near Death Experiences for the Encyclopædia Britannica and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies (formerly Anabiosis) from 1982 through 2007. Greyson has been interviewed or consulted many times in the press on the subject of near-death experiences.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Selected publications[]
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Greyson is author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond (Macmillan, 2021), co-author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)[14] and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation (Praeger, 2009).[15] He has written many journal articles on the subject of near-death experiences, and these include:
- Greyson B (2010). "Implications of near-death experiences for a post materialist psychology" (PDF). Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 2: 37–45. doi:10.1037/a0018548.
- Greyson B (2007). "Near-death experience: Clinical implications" (PDF). Rev Psiq Clin. 34: 116–125.
- Greyson B (2006). "Near-death experiences and spirituality" (PDF). Zygon. 41 (2): 393–414. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00745.x.
- Greyson, B (2005). ""False positive" claims of near-death experiences and "false negative" denials of near-death experiences" (PDF). Death Studies. 29 (2): 145–55. doi:10.1080/07481180590906156. PMID 15822242.
- Greyson, B; Ring, K. (2004). "The Life Changes Inventory – Revised" (PDF). Journal of Near-Death Studies. 23: 41–54.
- Greyson, B; Liester, MB (2004). "Auditory Hallucinations Following Near-Death Experiences" (PDF). Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 44 (3): 320–336. doi:10.1177/0022167804266281.
- Lange, R; Greyson, B; Houran, J (2004). "A Rasch scaling validation of a 'core' near-death experience" (PDF). British Journal of Psychology. 95 (Pt 2): 161–77. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.533.9592. doi:10.1348/000712604773952403. PMID 15142300.
- Greyson B (2003). "Incidence and correlates of near-death experiences on a cardiac care unit" (PDF). Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 25 (4): 269–276. doi:10.1016/s0163-8343(03)00042-2. PMID 12850659.
See also[]
- Satwant Pasricha
- International Association for Near-Death Studies
- Near-death studies
- Life After Life
- Pam Reynolds case
- Eben Alexander (author)
- Raymond Moody
- Pim van Lommel
References[]
- ^ Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Edwardsville Woman has Near-death Experience". Belleville News-Democrat. January 21, 2003. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
[Greyson] called 'the father of near-death experience research' by some...
- ^ Greyson, Bruce (1983). The near-death experience scale: Construction, reliability, and validity. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Jun;171(6):369-75.
- ^ Google Scholar, Citations of Greyson (1983). Accessed January 19, 2021.
- ^ Bruce Greyson (1993). "Near-death experiences and the physio-kundalini syndrome". Journal of Religion and Health. 32 (4): 277–290. doi:10.1007/BF00990954. PMID 24271550. S2CID 1892471.
- ^ "Near-death experience is debated". The Tuscaloosa News Citing Story in Los Angeles Times. May 23, 1982. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Jane E. Brody (November 17, 1988). "HEALTH; Personal Health". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Anne Longley (August 1, 1994). "A Glimpse Beyond: A Psychiatrist Plumbs the Near-Death Experience". People. 42 (5). Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Douglas Fox (October 17, 2006). "Light at the end of the tunnel". New Scientist. 2573. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Benedict Carey (January 17, 2009). "The Afterlife of Near-Death". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Daniel Williams (August 31, 2007). "At the Hour Of Our Death". Time. Archived from the original on September 5, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ "Science Notebook". The Washington Post. February 7, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ "Irreducible Mind". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
- ^ Information about the Division of Perceptual Studies Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Bruce Greyson biography at the University of Virginia
- The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia
- Bruce Greyson personal website
- 1946 births
- Living people
- American psychiatrists
- Parapsychologists
- University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty
- Near-death experience researchers