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Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years.
- Canadian by birth; American, naturalized 1949
- February 8, 2007 (aged 88), Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- October 31, 1918, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Reincarnation research, near death studies, medical history taking
A review of the late psychiatrist Ian Stevenson's research on children's memories of previous lives, based on his book Reincarnation and Biology. The author challenges the skeptical view that Stevenson's data are not reliable and argues that he was a pioneer of parapsychology.
DOPS is a research group founded by Dr. Ian Stevenson in 1967 to study extraordinary human experiences and capacities. Learn about their mission, faculty, publications, events, and how to participate in their research.
Ian Stevenson was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who devoted his career to psychical research, especially on past life memories among children. He was the Carlson Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia and the director of the Division of Perceptual Studies. He died in 2007 of pneumonia.
Feb 18, 2007 · Ian Stevenson, an academic psychiatrist who 45 years ago abandoned Freud as too unscientific and turned to the paranormal as a tool with which to plumb the human psyche, died on Feb. 8 in...
Abstract-Ian Stevenson began researching cases of young children who claimed to remember previous lives in 1961. His approach involved a rational, scientific attempt to discern exactly what the children said about a previous life and how much of it could be verified to be accurate for one particular deceased individual.
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Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation is a 1966 book written by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson on claims of spontaneous recall of information about previous lives by young children. The book focuses on twenty cases investigated by the author. It has been translated into seven foreign languages.
