4.1 RELEASE OF THE BOOK “VARIETIES OF ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES” IN PORTUGUESE

The release of the book “Varieties of Anomalous Experiences: Examining the Scientific Evidence” in its Brazilian edition is planned for 18th August, from 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.

Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence, first published in 2000 by the American Psychological Association, and edited by psychologists Etzel Cardeña, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner is a collection of various essays examining experiences that can be classified as “anomalous” from the perspective of psychological science. These articles provide interesting studies of various anomalous experiences that may not fit into previous scientific or religious understandings of reality. For too long, modern science has conveniently ignored or tried to deny such experiences, and it is for precisely this reason that this book serves as such a valuable contribution. This book offers a unique study on such experiences from the perspective of mainstream modern psychology and is published by the APA, the main organisation of mainstream psychology. As such, this book offers legitimacy to experiences and theories that have previously been ignored or denied. http://www.amazon.com/Varieties-Anomalous-Experience-Examining-Scientific/product-reviews/1557986258

Thus, in terms of publications, this book is a historical landmark for the recognition of Anomalistic Psychology.

This book is being translated into Portuguese by Dr Fatima Machado (from Inter Psi - Anomalistic Psychology and Psychosocial Processes Laboratory of the Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil) and technically revised by Dr Wellington Zangari from the same laboratory. The volume will be published by Atheneu in Brazil, and its release is planned for August at a cocktail party hosted by UNIBEM on the occasion of the PA Convention in Curitiba.

4.4 LECTURE WITH DR ETZEL CARDEÑA

Two of the three editors of the book will be present at the ceremony, Dr Stanley Krippner and Dr Etzel Cardeña, to give a talk about the book.

Etzel Cardeña is Thorsen Professor of Psychology at Lund University, Sweden where he is Director of the Centre for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). A native of Mexico, Cardeña studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and completed an MA in clinical psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada, and an MA and Ph.D. in Personality Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Charles Tart, was on the phenomenology of deep states of hypnosis. He subsequently went on to undertake post-doctoral work in the area of dissociation (alterations of consciousness related to experiential detachment) and hypnosis at Stanford University under David Spiegel.
Cardeña has served as President of Division 30 of the American Psychological Association and as President of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He has also served as consultant to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) and is currently consulting on the development of the DSM-V. He has advised the World Health Organization in developing guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, and was also President of the Parapsychological Association 2008-2009.
His edited book “Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence” is the first scholarly volume on anomalous experiences to be published by a mainstream publisher (The American Psychological Association).
In addition to his professional work in psychology, Etzel Cardeña has worked as a theatre director, actor and playwright in Mexico, the USA and Sweden, and undertook graduate studies in Theatre at the University of California, Davis.

Books

• Cardeña, E., & Winkelman, M. (in press). Altering consciousness. A multidisciplinary perspective. Volume I. History, culture, and the humanities. Praeger Publishers.
• Cardeña, E., & Winkelman, M. (in press). Altering consciousness. A multidisciplinary perspective. Volume II. Biology and clinical sciences. Praeger Publishers.
• Cardeña, E., & Croyle, K. (Eds.) (2005). Acute reactions to trauma and psychotherapy: A multidisciplinary and international perspective. New York: Haworth Press. Also published as special issue of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 6(2).
• Cardeña, E., Lynn, S. J., & Krippner, S. (Eds.). (2000). Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Kirsch, I., Capafons, A., Cardeña, E., & Amigó, S. (Eds.) (1999). Clinical hypnosis and self-regulation therapy: A cognitive-behavioral perspective. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Cumulative achievement awards

• Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Hypnosis - Society of Psychological Hypnosis (Division 30 of APA), bestowed on 2007.
• College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Award for Excellence in Research for 2004 - University of Texas-Pan American.
• Morton Prince Award for cumulative contribution to research on dissociative disorders. International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), bestowed on November, 1999.
• Early career achievement award - Division 30 (Psychological Hypnosis) of APA, bestowed on August 1995.

Paper awards

• Best research paper (with Dietrich Lehmann, Peter Jönsson, Devin Terhune, & Pascal Faber), for “The neurophenomenology of hypnosis,” bestowed by Division 30 of APA, 2007 Annual Meeting.
• Pierre Janet Award for the best clinical, theoretical or research paper in dissociation for the previous year. ISSD, 2004 Annual Meeting.
• Best paper on the application of hypnosis for "Hypnosis" (for posttraumatic conditions), bestowed by Division 30 of APA, 2002 Annual Meeting.
• Best theoretical paper for “The ways to study anomalous experience,” bestowed by Division 30 of APA, 1999 Annual Meeting.
• Hilgard Award for the best theoretical paper on hypnosis published in 1996, for “Just floating on the sky”. A comparison of shamanic and hypnotic phenomenology,” bestowed by the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH), 1997.
• Best research paper (with R. Litwin), for “Dissociation and reported trauma in organic and psychogenic seizure patients,” bestowed by Division 30 of APA, 1993 Annual Meeting.
• Hilgard Award for the best theoretical paper on hypnosis published in 1991 (with D. Spiegel), for “Disintegrated experience: The dissociative disorders revisited,” bestowed by SCEH, 1992.
• Best first paper by a non-student, for “Dissociative reactions to the Bay Area Earthquake,” bestowed by Division 30 of APA, 1991 Annual Meeting.
• Crasilneck Award for the best first clinical or research paper, for “The phenomenology of quiescent and physically active deep hypnosis,” bestowed by SCEH, 1989.

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