Ian Stevenson Wikipedia. Ian Stevenson. Born1. October 3. 1, 1. 91. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Died. February 8, 2. Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Cause of death. Pneumonia. Citizenship. Canadian by birth American, naturalized 1. Education. University of St. Andrews 1. 93. 71. BSc Mc. Gill University, 1. MD Mc. Gill University School of Medicine, 1. Occupation. Psychiatrist, director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Known for. Reincarnation research, near death studies, medical history taking. SpousesOctavia Reynolds m. Margaret Pertzoff m. ParentsIan and Ruth Stevenson. Stefan Ossowiecki Pdf' title='Stefan Ossowiecki Pdf' />Ian Pretyman Stevenson October 3. February 8, 2. 00. Canadian born U. S. He worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years, as chair of the department of psychiatry from 1. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1. Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2. As founder and director of the universitys Division of Perceptual Studies, which investigates the paranormal, Stevenson became known internationally for his research into reincarnation, the idea that emotions, memories, and even physical injuries in the form of birthmarks, can be transferred from one life to another. He traveled extensively over a period of forty years, investigating three thousand cases of children around the world who claimed to remember past lives. His position was that certain phobias, philias, unusual abilities and illnesses could not be fully explained by heredity or the environment. He believed that reincarnation provided a third type of explanation. Stevenson helped to found the Society for Scientific Exploration in 1. Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation 1. Stefan Ossowiecki ur. Moskwie lub w okolicach Mohylewa, zamordowany 5 sierpnia 1944 w Warszawie polski inynier zajmujcy si zjawiskami. Ian Stevenson 19182007 was a psychiatrist who worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for 50 years. Software Modem Telkomsel Flash there. He was Chair of the. H3KZRNYw8I/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Stefan Ossowiecki Pdf' title='Stefan Ossowiecki Pdf' />European Cases of the Reincarnation Type 2. His major work was the 2,2. Reincarnation and Biology A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects 1. This reported two hundred cases of birthmarks that seemed to correspond in some way to a wound on the deceased person whose life the child recalled. He wrote a shorter version of the same research for the general reader, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect 1. Reaction to his work was mixed. In his New York Times obituary, Margalit Fox wrote that Stevensons supporters saw him as a misunderstood genius, but that most scientists had simply ignored his research and that his detractors regarded him as earnest but gullible. His life and work became the subject of three supportive books, Old Souls The Scientific Search for Proof of Past Lives 1. Tom Shroder, a Washington Post journalist, and Life Before Life 2. Jim B. Tucker, a psychiatrist and colleague at the University of Virginia, and Science, the Self, and Survival after Death 2. Emily Williams Kelly. Critics, particularly the philosophers C. T. K. Chari 1. 90. Paul Edwards 1. 92. Stevenson had deceived him, that he had asked them leading questions, that he had often worked through translators who believed what the interviewees were saying, and that his conclusions were undermined by confirmation bias, where cases not supportive of his hypothesis were not presented as counting against it. BackgroundeditPersonal life and educationeditStevenson was born in Montreal and raised in Ottawa, one of three children. His father, John Stevenson, was a Scottish lawyer who was working in Ottawa as the Canadian correspondent for The Times of London or The New York Times. His mother, Ruth, had an interest in theosophy and an extensive library on the subject, to which Stevenson attributed his own early interest in the paranormal. As a child he was often bedridden with bronchitis, a condition that continued into adulthood and engendered in him a lifelong love of books. According to Emily Williams Kelly, a colleague of his at the University of Virginia, he maintained a list of the books he had read, which numbered 3,5. He studied medicine at St. Andrews University in Scotland from 1. Canada because of the outbreak of the Second World War. He graduated from Mc. Gill University with a B. S. c. in 1. 94. 2 and an M. D. in 1. 94. 3. He was married to Octavia Reynolds from 1. In 1. 98. 5, he married Dr. Margaret Pertzoff 1. Randolph Macon Womans College. She did not share his views on the paranormal, but tolerated them with what Stevenson called benevolent silences. Early careereditAfter graduating, Stevenson conducted research in biochemistry. His first residency was at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal 1. Mc. Gill advised him to move to Arizona for his health. He took up a residency at St. Josephs Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona 1. After that, he held a fellowship in internal medicine at the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans, became a Denis Fellow in Biochemistry at Tulane University School of Medicine 1. Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Medicine at Cornell University Medical College and New York Hospital 1. He became a U. S. Kelly writes that Stevenson became dissatisfied with the reductionism he encountered in biochemistry, and wanted to study the whole person. He became interested in psychosomatic medicine, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and in the late 1. New York Hospital exploring psychosomatic illness and the effects of stress, and in particular why one persons response to stress might be asthma and anothers high blood pressure. He taught at Louisiana State University School of Medicine from 1. In the 1. 95. 0s, he met the English writer Aldous Huxley 1. L. S. D. and mescaline, one of the first academics to do so. Kelly writes that he tried L. S. D. himself, describing three days of perfect serenity. He wrote that at the time he felt he could never be angry again, but added, As it happens that didnt work out, but the memory of it persisted as something to hope for. From 1. New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute and the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, graduating from the latter in 1. Ttl To Vga Converter on this page. University of Virginia. He argued against the orthodoxy within psychiatry and psychoanalysis at the time that the personality is more plastic in the early years his paper on the subject, Is the human personality more plastic in infancy and childhood American Journal of Psychiatry, 1. He wrote that their response prepared him for the rejection he experienced over his work on the paranormal. Reincarnation researcheditEarly interesteditStevenson described as the leitmotif of his career his interest in why one person would develop one disease, and another something different. He came to believe that neither environment nor heredity could account for certain fears, illnesses and special abilities, and that some form of personality or memory transfer might provide a third type of explanation. He acknowledged, however, the absence of evidence of a physical process by which a personality could survive death and transfer to another body, and he was careful not to commit himself fully to the position that reincarnation occurs. He argued only that his case studies could not, in his view, be explained by environment or heredity, and that reincarnation is the best even though not the only explanation for the stronger cases we have investigated. His position was not a religious one, but represented what Robert Almeder, professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgia State University, calls the minimalistic reincarnation hypothesis. Almeder states the hypothesis this way There is something essential to some human personalities.