According to Chris French, PhD.: "The difference between anomalistic psychology and parapsychology is in terms of the aims of what each discipline is about. Parapsychologists [seek] to prove the reality of paranormal forces...whereas anomalistic psychologists [assert] that paranormal forces probably don't exist and that therefore we should be looking for other kinds of [psychological] explanations...

Death is certain for everyone, but for those who brush against it and survive come out the other side forever changed. According to the studies conducted by Kenneth Ring (1980), individuals who experienced NDEs (near-death experiences) had higher self-esteem, greater compassion for others, a feeling of being more intuitive, no longer worried about death, and claimed to have witnessed an afterlife. These changes..

Mass psychogenic illness, folie à deux ("folly of two"), body-centered countertransference; documented psychological phenomena that memetically ensnares more than a single mind and body. For centuries these events were viewed as the work of dark magic, but modern diagnositic criteria can demystify them and recontextualize these behaviors to better help address the underlying cause of...