Edward F. Kelly, PhD
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Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D. is currently Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia. He is author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
Dr. Kelly received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Yale and a PhD from Harvard with primary interests in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. His research, carried out at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill as part of a large neuroscience research program, involved non-invasive study of normal and abnormal plasticity in human somatosensory cortex using high-resolution EEG and fMRI techniques. He had previously spent over ten years working full-time in experimental parapsychology, initially at J. B. Rhine’s Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, NC, and subsequently through the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University.
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"Irreducible Mind" with Edward Kelly
Ed and Emily are the authors of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Computer Recognition of English Word Senses. Their central long term interests revolve around mind-brain relations and functional neuroimaging studies of unusual states of consciousness and associated cognitive phenomena.
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Irreducible Mind
Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
by Edward F. Kelly, PhD and Emily Williams Kelly
Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced.