Binding: Hardcover
Description: A psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the universal disturbing feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. These experiences of sensing a Presence when no one else is there have been given many names the Third Man guardian angels shadow figures social hallucinations and they have inspired unsettled and confounded in equal measure. While the contexts in which they occur are diverse they are united by a distinct and uncanny feeling of visitation by another. But what does this feeling mean and where does it come from? When and why do presences emerge? And how can we even begin to understand a phenomenon that can be transformative for those who experience it and yet so hard to put into words? The answers to these questions lie in this tour - de - force through contemporary psychology psychiatry neuroscience and philosophy. Presence follows Ben Alderson - Day's attempts as a psychologist and a researcher to understand how this experience is possible. What is a voice when it isn t heard and how otherwise do we know or feel that someone is in our presence? Is it a hallucination connected to psychosis a change in the working of the brain or something else? The journey to understand takes us to meet explorers mediums and robots and step through real imagined and virtual worlds. Presence is the story of who we carry with us at all times as parts of ourselves.
Title: Presence The Strange Science And True Stories Of The Unseen Other
Author(s): Alderson - Day Ben
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250278258
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/28/2023
Category: Abnormal Psychology