Similarities between near-death experiences and multiple personality disorder.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 DOI: 10.17514/jnds-1992-11-1-p19-38. (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Near-death experience |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key points | Argues that near-death experiences and multiple personality disorder share phenomenological features, including out-of-body experiences, a transcendental environment, encounter with a higher self, possible temporal lobe involvement, and antecedent child abuse, and proposes that the two may be variants of the same basic phenomenological pattern. |
Abstract
In this paper I compare the phenomenology of near-death experiences to that of multiple personality disorder. The comparison reveals a number of similarities, including out-of-body experiences, the transcendental environment, encounter with the higher self, possible temporal lobe involvement, and antecedent child abuse. Rather than being disparate and unrelated experiences, I suggest that the near-death experience and multiple personality disorder may be variants of the same basic phenomenological pattern.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on near-death experience, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times | 1987 | Historical analysis | |
| Neuroscience and the Near-Death Experience: Roles for the NMSA-PCP receptor, the sigma receptor and the endopsychosins | 1990 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Implications of near-death experiences for a postmaterialist psychology. | 2010 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Near-Death Experience as a Probe to Explore (Disconnected) Consciousness | 2020 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Near-death experiences between science and prejudice | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cites 3
- Childhood Near-Death Experiences Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine November 1, 1986
- Loving help from the other side: A mosaic of some near-death, and near-death-like, experiences. Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992
- A near-death experience in a 7-year-old child. A M A Journal of Diseases of Children October 1, 1983