Mittwoch, 01. Juni 2016, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
Wednesday Seminar - Etzel Cardeña
In the Realm of the Extraordinary: Anomalous Experience from Psychological and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Universitätsstraße 7, NIG 4. Stock, 1010 Wien
Lecture
Some anomalous experiences such as mystical and hallucinatory experiences have radically transformed both individuals and groups throughout history. At the beginning of psychology as an independent discipline, William James proposed a discipline that included consideration of the vast panoply of human experiences and grounded on his “radical empiricism,” and without any assumption that they were necessarily indicators of dysfunction. Although this and similar proposals were ignored later, they are now currently in vogue. I will review recent etic and emic studies showing that anomalous experiences are an essential part of human experience.
Etzel Cardeña is the Thorsen Professor of Psychology at Lund University, Sweden where he is Director of the Centre for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). He has served as President of the Society of Psychological Hypnosis (APA Division 30), and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Cardeña has held academic posts at Georgetown University, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and the University of Texas-Pan American, among others. He has served as President of the Society of Psychological Hypnosis (APA Division 30), the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and the Parapsychological Association for the year 2008-2009. His edited book „Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence“ published in 2000 and a second edition in 2014 is a scholarly volume on anomalous experiences. His two volumes Altering Consciousness discusses the importance of altered states across history, culture, and in many disciplines including philosophy, anthropology, psychology, biology, and various others.
Veranstalter
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie; EMLAAK; ÖEG
Kontakt
Mag. Marie-Therese Hartwig
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
427749534
marie-therese.hartwig@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Montag, 09. Mai 2016, 14:24
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 02. Juni 2016, 12:51