Bruce Greyson, M.D. (born October 1946), is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

. He is co-author of Irreducible Mind

Irreducible Mind

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century is a 2007 book by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson. The book begins by presenting a brief overview of contemporary neuroscience followed by a summary of the approach to...

(2007) and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences (2009). Greyson has written many journal articles, and has given media interviews, on the subject of near death experience

Near death experience

A near-death experience refers to a broad range of personal experiences associated with impending death, encompassing multiple possible sensations including detachment from the body; feelings of levitation; extreme fear; total serenity, security, or warmth; the experience of absolute dissolution;...

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Academic appointments

Bruce Greyson is Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and the division director of The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), formerly the Division of Personality Studies, at the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

. He is also a Professor of Psychiatric Medicine in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, at the University of Virginia.

Research work

Bruce Greyson is a researcher

Researcher

A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...

 in the field of near-death studies

Near-death studies

Near-death studies is a school of psychology and psychiatry that studies the phenomenology and after-effects of a Near-death experience .-NDE :...

 and has been called the father of research in near-death experiences. Greyson, along with Kenneth Ring

Kenneth Ring

Kenneth Ring is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies...

, Michael Sabom, and others, built on the research of Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences , a term that he coined in 1975. His best-selling title is Life After Life.-Life:...

, Jr, Russell Noyes and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. was a Swiss American psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying , where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model.She is a 2007 inductee into the American National Women's Hall of Fame...

. Greyson's scale to measure the aspects of near-death experiences has been widely used, being cited 95 times as of early 2010. He also devised a 19-item scale to assess experience of kundalini

Kundalini

Kundalini literally means coiled. In yoga, a "corporeal energy" - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, lies coiled at the base of the spine. It is envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent...

, the Physio-Kundalini Scale.

Greyson wrote the overview of Near Death Experiences for the Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica

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and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies

Journal of Near-Death Studies

The Journal of Near-Death Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering near-death studies that is published by the International Association for Near-Death Studies. The journal's founding editor-in-chief was Kenneth Ring...

(formerly Anabiosis) from 1982 through 2007. Greyson has been interviewed or consulted many times in the press on the subject of near-death experiences.

Selected publications

Greyson is co-author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation (Praeger, 2009). He has written many journal articles on the subject of near-death experiences, and these include:

• Greyson, B. "False positive" claims of near-death experiences and "false negative" denials of near-death experiences. Death Studies, 2005; 29:145-155.

• Greyson, B, Ring, K. The Life Changes Inventory-Revised. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2004; 23:41-54.

• Greyson, B, Liester, MB. Internal voices following near-death experiences. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2004; 44:320-336.

• Lange, R, Greyson, B, Houran, J. A Rasch scaling validation of a 'core' near-death experience. British Journal of Psychology, 2004; 95:161-177.

External links

• Bruce Greyson biography at the University of Virginia
• The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia