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Satwant Pasricha, Ph.D.
Satwant K. Pasricha is an Indian clinical
psychologist who has done extensive field investigations of children
with past-life memories, much of it in association with Ian Stevenson.
She was awarded her Ph.D. in Psychology from Bangalore University
in 1978 with a dissertation that described her reincarnation research.
The dissertation was published in 1990 as Claims
of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India.
Pasricha became involved in psychical research because she was not
satisfied with the conventional explanations of certain unusual behavior,
including that often considered paranormal. She joined the faculty
of the Indian National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
(NIMHANS) in December, 1980, as a Lecturer in Clinical Parapsychology
and was promoted step by step to become Professor of Clinical Psychology.
At NMHANS, she was expected to spend most her time teaching and seeing
patients, but was also able to continue her field work. She retired
from NIMHANS in 2010 and is presently at the Himalayan Institute of
Medical Sciences in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
Pasricha, a native Hindi and Punjabi speaker, met Stevenson in 1973
and began assisting him as an interpreter the following year. She
quickly graduated to the status of a colleague, however, and is the
senior author of the first paper they published together, describing
three Indian cases with significant behavioral features (Pasricha
& Stevenson, 1977). Another early report described a schizophrenic
man who claimed memories of his grandfather while in his psychosis
(Pasricha, Murthy & Murthy, 1978). Also during this period she
and anthropologist David Barker conducted what is still the only systematic
survey of reincarnation memory claims, in a development block in the
northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (Barker & Pasricha, 1979).
Over the years, Pasricha has been involved in several important investigations,
including those of Sharada, who at 32 developed an alternate personality
who spoke fluent Bengali (Stevenson & Pasricha, 1980), and Sumitra,
who when she was about 17 seemed to die and then revived claiming
to be someone else (Stevenson, Pasricha, & McClean-Rice, 1989).
She and Stevenson compared cases they had investigated independently,
finding them to be very similar in their main features (Pasricha &
Stevenson, 1979). They also re-investigated Indian cases that had
been studied in the 1920s and 1930s and compared them with cases they
had themselves investigated after 1960, again finding them to be very
similar (Pasricha & Stevenson, 1987).
Pasricha has tested hypotheses frequently put forward by critics and
skeptics of a reincarnation interpretation of children’s past-life
memory claims, including the idea that they are no more than responses
to expectations about how the memories might manifest (Pasricha, 1990b)
and that parents are guiding the development of the cases (Pasricha,
1992; 2011a). She has tried to answer the question of why there are
so many fewer cases in south India than in north India (Pasricha,
2001) and has described a series of comparatively rare northern Indian
cases with birthmarks and other physical signs (Pasricha, 1998).
In addition to her reincarnation research, Pasricha has studied Indian
near-death experiences (Pasricha, 1993, 1995; Pasricha & Stevenson,
1986). These NDE papers are collected along with many of her reincarnation
contributions in her second book, Can the Mind Survive Beyond Death?
In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence, also called Can
the Mind Survive Death?: Reincarnation Research(2008). Pasricha
has been recognized with several awards in India. She has published
both in India and internationally in peer-reviewed journals. She remains
closely associated with Stevenson’s Division of Personality
Studies (now Division of Perceptual Studies, DOPS) at the University
of Virginia and reports of her case investigations are on file there.
She is the International Affiliate of the Parapsychology Foundation
in India.
Pasricha’s publications on reincarnation are listed below.
Sources
http://www.pflyceum.org/49.html
Publications on Reincarnation
Publications marked with an asterisk are included in
Can the Mind Survive Beyond Death? In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence
(2 Vols). New Dehli: Harman Publishing House, 2008.
Barker, D. R., & Pasricha, S. K. (1979). Reincarnation
cases in Fatehabad: A systematic survey in north India. Journal of Asian
and African Studies, 14, 231-240.
*Cook, E. W., Pasricha, S., Samararatne, G., Maung
U W., & Stevenson, I. (1983a). A review and analysis of “unsolved”
cases of the reincarnation type. I: Introduction and illustrative case
reports. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 77,
45-62.
*Cook, E. W., Pasricha, S., Samararatne, G., Maung
U W., & Stevenson, I. (1983b). A review and analysis of “unsolved”
cases of the reincarnation type. II: Comparison of features of solved
and unsolved cases. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research,
77, 115-135.
*Pasricha, S. K. (1983). New information favoring a
paranormal interpretation in the case of Rakesh Gaur. European Journal
of Parapsychology, 5, 77-85.
Pasricha, S. K. (1990a). Claims of Reincarnation: An
Empirical Study of Cases in India. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House.
*Pasricha, S. [K.] (1990b). Three conjectured features
of reincarnation type cases in north India: Responses of persons unfamiliar
with actual cases. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research,
84, 227-233.
*Pasricha, S. [K.] (1992). Are reincarnation type cases
shaped by parental guidance? An empirical study concerning the limits
of parents’ influence on children. Journal of Scientific Exploration,
6, 167-180.
*Pasricha S. [K.] (1996a). Phobias in cases of the
reincarnation type. NIMHANS Journal, 14, 51-55.
Pasricha S. [K.] (1996b). The phenomenon of reincarnation
in children. In M. S. Bhatia & N. K. Dhar (Eds.), A comprehensive
textbook of child and adolescent psychiatry (vol. 20, pp 1-23). Delhi:
CBS Publishers and Distributors.
*Pasricha, S. K. (1998a). Cases of the reincarnation
type in northern India with birthmarks and birth defects. Journal of
Scientific Exploration, 12, 259-293.
*Pasricha S. K. (1998b). Children who claimed to remember
previous lives with major change in religion. NIMHANS Journal, 16, 93–100.
*Pasricha, S. K. (2000). Twins who claimed to remember
previous lives. NIMHANS Journal, 18(1-2), 39-51.
*Pasricha, S. K. (2001a). Cases of the reincarnation
type in South India: Why so few reports? Journal of Scientific Exploration,
15, 211-221.
Pasricha, S. K. (2001b). Experience in rebirth research
in India. In N. Senanayake (Ed.), Trends in rebirth research: Proceedings
of an international seminar. Ratmalana, Sri Lanka: Sarvodaya Vishva
Lekha.
Pasricha, S. K. (2008). Can the Mind Survive Beyond
Death? In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence (2 Vols).New Delhi: Harman
Publishing House.
Pasricha, S. K. (2011a). Do attitudes of families concerned
influence features of children who claim to remember previous lives?
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 53(1), 21–24.
Pasricha, S. K. (2011b). Relevance of para-psychology
in psychiatric practice. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 53(1), 4–8.
PMCID: PMC3056186 doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.75544.
*Pasricha, S. K., & Barker, D. R. (1981). A case
of the reincarnation type in India: The case of Rakesh Gaur. European
Journal of Parapsychology, 3, 381-408.
*Pasricha, S. K., Keil, [H. H.] J., Tucker, J. B.,
& Stevenson, I. (2005). Some bodily malformations attributed to
previous lives. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 19, 359-383.
Pasricha, S. K., Murthy, H. N., & Murthy, V. N.
(1978). Examination of the claims of reincarnation in a psychotic condition.
Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 5, 197-202.
*Pasricha, S. K. & Murthy, V. N. (1980). The scientific
investigation of rebirth cases: Problems of field work and in the analysis
of data. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 22, 206-210.
*Pasricha, S. [K.], & Stevenson, I. (1977). Three
cases of the reincarnation type in India. Indian Journal of Psychiatry,
19, 36-42.
*Pasricha, S. [K.], & Stevenson, I. (1979). A partly
independent replication of investigations of cases suggestive of reincarnation.
European Journal of Parapsychology, 3, 51-69.
*Pasricha, S. [K.], & Stevenson, I. (1987). Indian
cases of the reincarnation type two generations apart. Journal of the
Society for Psychical Research, 54, 239-246.
*Stevenson, I., & Pasricha, S. [K.] (1980). A preliminary
report of an unusual case of the reincarnation type in with xenoglossy.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 74, 331-348.
*Stevenson, I., Pasricha, S. [K.], & McClean-Rice,
N. (1989). A case of the possession type in India with evidence of paranormal
knowledge. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 3, 81-101.
*Stevenson, I., Pasricha, S. [K.], & Samararatne,
G. (1988). Deception and self-deception in cases of the reincarnation
type: Seven illustrative cases in Asia. Journal of the American Society
for Psychical Research, 82, 1-31.
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