November 1, 1985
Stuart W. Twemlow, Glen O. Gabbard
Thirty-four participants responding to a questionnaire survey and reporting near-death experiences are examined for preexisting psychological, perceptual-cognitive, demographic, and physical differences when compared both with each other and with a larger pool of 386 respondents who were not near death. There was no evidence of psychopathology in the population, but definite evidence of...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
December 1, 1982
Stuart W. Twemlow, Glen O. Gabbard, L. Coyne
Abstract: This study reports the results of a multivariate analysis of data from 33 subjects who had near-death experiences. The analysis examined the relationship between the phenomenology of the experience and preexisting conditions. Five clusters were derived: Low Stress, Emotional Stress, Intoxicant, Cardiac Arrest, and Anesthetic. The heuristic value of these clusters is discussed. The...
Psychiatry
November 1, 1982
Glen O. Gabbard, Stuart W. Twemlow, Fowler C. Jones
Considerable confusion exists in the psychiatric literature concerned with states of consciousness in which there is an altered perception of the mind/body relationship; related but different terms are often used interchangeably, with a lack of definitional rigor. The purpose of this paper is to bring clarity to this group of related phenomena by differentiating out-of-body experience (OBE)...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
June 1, 1981
Glen O. Gabbard, Stuart W. Twemlow, Fowler C. Jones
72 citations
Near deaths experiences are being reported with increasing frequency, but whether the constellation of factors comprising these experiences is unique to near death situations is unknown. This investigation compared near death experiences to other out-of-body experiences to determine if there are unique features associated with near death experiences. Our results indicate that there are no...