Scholarly Books
A selection of scholarly books and book chapters with a relevance to Survival Research. For reviews of some books listed below, please feel free to visit our book review section. A few classical books are available online. Whenever this is the case, it is indicated appropriately.
Scholarly books and book chapters (selection)
Allison, L. W. (1929). Leonard and Soule Experiments in Psychical Research. Also Experiments with Sanders, Brittain, Peters and Dowden. Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research.
Almeder, R. F. (1992). Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life After Death. Lanham, MD: Littlefield Adams.
Baerwald, R. (1925). Die intellektuellen Phänomene [The Mental Phenomena of Mediumship]. Berlin: Ullstein.
Barrett, W. F. (1917). On the Threshold of the Unseen. An Examination of the Phenomena of Spiritualism and of the Evidence for Survival after Death. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
Barrett, W. F. (1926). Death-Bed Visions. London: Methuen & Co. [HTML]
Becker, C. B. (1993). Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Beloff, J. (1993). Parapsychology. A Concise History. London: Athlone Press.
Blackmore, S. (1993). Dying to Live: Science and the Near-Death Experience. London: Grafton.
Bozzano, E. (n.d.). Discarnate Influence in Human Life. London: Watkins.
Bozzano, E. (1930). Die Spukphänomene [The Phenomena of Haunting]. Bamberg: Verlag Hans Müller.
Braude, S. E. (1995). First Person Plural. Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Braude, S. E. (1996). Postmortem Survival: The State of the Debate. In: Stoeber, M. & Meynell, H. (eds.) Critical Reflections on the Paranormal (pp. 177-196). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Braude, S. E. (2003). Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Broad, C. D. (1958). Personal Identity and Survival. The thirteenth Frederic W. H. Myers Memorial Lecture. London: Society for Psychical Research.
Broad, C. D. (1962). Lectures on Psychical Research. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Cardeña, E., Lynn, S. J., Krippner, S. (eds.) (2000). Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.
Carrington, H. (1957). The Case for Psychic Survival. New York: Citadel Press.
Coly, L. and McMahon, J. D. S. (eds.) (1995). Parapsychology and Thanatology. Proceedings of an International Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, November 6-7, 1993. New York: Parapsychology Foundation. [Review]
Crookes, W. (1874). Researches In The Penomena Of Spiritualism. London: J. Burns. [HTML]
Cummins, G. (1965). Swan on a Black Sea. A Study in Automatic Writing: The Cummins-Willett Scripts. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Doore, G. (ed.). (1990). What Survives? Contemporary Explorations of Life After Death. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher.
Ducasse, C. J. (1961). A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. [HTML]
Ducasse, C. J. (1979). Paranormal Phenomena, Science, And Life After Death. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, Inc.
Flournoy, T. (1900). From India to the Planet Mars. A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Gauld, A. (1968). The Founders of Psychical Research. New York: Schocken.
Gauld, A. (1977). Discarnate Survival. In: Wolman, B. B. (ed.) Handbook of Parapsychology (pp. 577-630). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
Gauld, A. (1982). Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations. London: Heinemann.
Gauld, A. & Cornell, A. D. (1979). Poltergeists. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Green, C. & McCreery, C. (1975). Apparitions. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Greyson, B. & Flynn, D. C. P. (eds.) (1984). The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas.
Griffin, D. R. (1997). Parapsychology, Philosophy and Spirituality: A Postmodern Exploration. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Gurney, E., Myers, F. W. H. & Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the Living. 2 vols. London: Trübner. [PDF; registration required]
Hart, H. (1959). The Enigma of Survival. The Case For and Against an After Life. London: Rider & Company.
Hartmann, E. von (1885). Der Spiritismus [Spiritism]. Leipzig & Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Friedrich. [PDF]
Hyslop, J. H. (1905). Science and a Future Life. Boston: Herbert B. Turner.
Hyslop, J. H. (1908). Psychical Research and the Resurrection. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company.
Hyslop, J. H. (1918). Life after Death: Problems of the Future Life and Its Nature. New York: E. P. Dutton. [PDF]
Hyslop, J. H. (1919). Contact with the Other World. London: T. Werner Laurie. [PDF]
Irwin, H. J. (1985). Flight of Mind: A Psychological Study of the Out-of-Body Experience. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. [Review]
Kerner, J. (1829) Die Seherin von Prevorst, Eröffnung über das innere Leben der Menschen und über das Hereinragen der Geisterwelt in die unsere [The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man, and the Inter-Diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit], 2 vols. Stuttgart: Cotta. [PDF of the English edition]
Lodge, O. (1909). The Survival of Man. A Study in Unrecognized Human Faculty. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company. [HTML]
Lombroso, C. (1909). After Death, What? London: T. F. Unwin.
Mattiesen, E. (1936-1939). Das persönliche Überleben des Todes. Eine Darstellung der Erfahrungsbeweise [Personal Survival of Death. A Presentation of the Empirical Evidence], 3 vols. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Matlock, J. G. (1990). Past life memory case studies. In: Krippner, S. (ed.) Advances in Parapsychological Research, Vol. 6 (pp. 187-267). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Murphy, G. & Ballou, R. O. (eds.) (1961). William James on Psychical Research. London: Chattoo and Windus.
Myers, F. W. H. (1903). Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green, And Co. [PDF; registration required] [Review of latest abridged edition]
Osis, K. & Haraldsson, E. (1977). At the hour of death. New York: Avon Books.
Pasricha, S. (1992). Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House. [Review]
Paterson, R. W. K. (1995). Philosophy and the Belief in Life After Death. London: Macmillan Press. [Review]
Podmore, F. (1903/1963). Mediums of the 19th Century. 2 vols. New York: University Books.
du Prel, C. (1885). Die Philosophie der Mystik [The Philosophy of Mysticism]. Leipzig: Ernst Günthers. [PDF]
du Prel, C. (1888). Die monistische Seelenlehre. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung des Menschenrätsels [The Monistic Soul Doctrine. A Contribution to the Solution of the Enigma of Man]. Leipzig: Ernst Günthers.
du Prel, C. (1894). Der Spiritismus [Spiritism]. Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun.
du Prel, C. (1901). Der Tod, das Jenseits, das Leben im Jenseits [Death, the Beyond, Life in the Beyond]. Jena: Hermann Constenoble.
Richmond, K. (1939). Evidence of Identity. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.
Richmond, Z. (1938). Evidence of Purpose. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.
Ring, K. (1980). Life at Death. A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. [Review]
Ring, K. & Cooper, S. (1999). Mindsight. Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto: William James Center for Consciousness Studies. [Review]
Roll, W. G. (1982). The Changing Perspective on Life after Death. In: Krippner, S. (ed.) Advances in Parapsychological Research, Vol. 3 (pp. 147-291). New York: Plenum Press.
Sabom, M. B. (1982). Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation. New York: Harper & Row.
Salter, W. H. (1938). Ghosts and Apparitions. London: G. Bell and Sons.
Salter, W. H. (1961). Zoar or the Evidence of Psychical Research Concerning Survival. Sidgwick and Jackson, London. [HTML] [Review]
Saltmarsh, H. F. (1938). Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross Correspondences. London: G. Bell & Sons.
Society for Psychical Research (1965). Hints on Sitting with Mediums. London: Society for Psychical Research.
Stevenson, I. (1974). Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Stevenson, I. (1974). Xenoglossy: A Review and Report of a Case. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Stevenson, I. (1977). Reincarnation: Field Studies and Theoretical Issues. In: Wolman, B. B. (ed.) Handbook of Parapsychology (pp. 631-663). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
Stevenson, I. (1984). Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Stevenson, I. (1997). Reincarnation and Biology. A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects. Vol. 1: Birthmarks. Vol. 2: Birth Defects and other Anomalies. Westport: Praeger. [Review]
Stevenson, I. (2003). European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. Jefferson: McFarland & Company.
Tyrrell, G. N. M. (1973). Apparitions (2nd revised ed.). London: Society for Psychical Research.
Wereide, T. (1930). The Trance Phenomena of Mrs. Ingeborg. In: Besterman, T. (ed.) Transactions Of The Fourth International Congress For Psychical Research, Athens 1930 (pp. 110-116). London: Society for Psychical Research. [HTML]
Zaleski, C. (1987). Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experiences in Medieval and Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press.
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