About the author
Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years. He was chair of their department of psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death in 2007. He helped to found the Society for Scientific Exploration in 1982. He is best known for his research into evidence of reincarnation – the premise that emotions, memories, and even physical bodily features can be passed on from one life to another. Over his forty years of international research, he amassed three thousand cases of children who claimed to remember past lives. Stevenson was the author of around three hundred papers and fourteen books on reincarnation, including Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1966), Reincarnation and Biology and its simplified version Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (both 1997), and European Cases of the Reincarnation Type (2003).
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💬 What our editors say about Ian Stevenson's books
“Stevenson’s revised edition stands as a significant contribution to parapsychology, offering a rigorous, data-driven examination of children’s spontaneous past-life memories. It effectively moves beyond anecdotal assumptions to…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, rev. ed. (Revised)
“Stevenson’s documentation is undeniably thorough, yet this volume is not for readers seeking mystical inspiration or easy answers. It requires patience for detailed case analysis and linguistic scrutiny rather than narrative…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (Rev and Enl)
“Stevenson provides a rigorous, case-based examination that demands patience from readers expecting narrative flair. The strength lies in its methodical presentation of European accounts rather than philosophical argumentation.…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on European Cases of the Reincarnation Type
📋 Editions by Ian Stevenson in the catalog
| Edition | Year | Publisher | Pages | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnatio | 2000 | McFarland & Company | 355 | 9780786409136 |
| Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (Rev and Enl) | — | University of Virginia Pre | 396 | 9780813908724 |
| European Cases of the Reincarnation Type | 2008 | McFarland & Company | 278 | 9780786442492 |
