Charles Tart
Overview
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psychologist
Psychologist
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and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology
Transpersonal psychology
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, and for his research in scientific parapsychology
Parapsychology
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. He earned his Ph. D.
Doctor of Philosophy
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in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in 1963.
His first books, Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), became widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology
Psychology
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Charles Tart was born in 1937 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
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and grew up in Trenton, New Jersey
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.