Ian Stevenson

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Ian Stevenson, Prof., (born October 31, 1918 in Montreal, Canada) is an eminent psychiatrist and the founder of scientific research on reincarnation.

Since 1967, he was director of The Division of Personality Studies (DOPS) [1] and former head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia. He is best known for collecting and meticulously researching cases of children who seem to recall past lives (spontaneously, that is, without the need for hypnosis).

Stevenson publishes only for the academic and scientific community, and his writing—densely packed with research details and academic argument—is difficult for the average reader to follow. His research, over 3000 study cases, provides evidence suggestive of reincarnation.

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Books by Ian Stevenson

Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. 1966. (2nd rev. ed. 1980)
Cases of the Reincarnation Type. Vol. I. Ten Cases in India. 1975.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type. Vol. II: Ten Cases in Sri Lanka. 1978.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type. Vol.III: Twelve Cases in Lebanon and Turkey.1980
Cases of the Reincarnation Type. Vol.IV: Twelve Cases in Thailand and Burma. 1983.
Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy. 1984.
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects. (2 Vols). 1997
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. 1997. (A short and non-technical version of the scientific two-volumes work for the general reader)
Children Who Remember Previous Lives. A Quest of Reincarnation. 2001. (A general non-technical introduction into reincarnation-research)
European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. 2003.

Books about Ian Stevenson

Tom Shroder: Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives. 1999.
Jim B. Tucker: Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives. 2005