ABDUCTED
How People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens
Susan A. Clancy
Harvard University Press, 2005
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The reader will learn about the current theory of delusions and how this helps to explain nonpathological belief of alien-abduction by 'abductees' and why these people are more likely to create false memories in the lab and score high on measures of fantasy-proneness and schizotypy.
Clancy presents clear explorations of what most mainstream experts believe are the sources of the abduction story, such as sleep paralysis and the dubious use of hypnosis in 'recovering' forgotten memories of the abduction. Her research shows that abductees are experiencing what in the 19th century was called hysteria. Clancy offers an intelligent and compassionate look at people whose "weird" belief usually elicits derision and argues convincingly for the need to look deeper into its significance.
Susan A. Clancy is a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and has published extensively on recovered memory.
5 CE credits; 162 pages
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