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Ballantine Books (1995), 464 pages
Description
A Harvard psychiatrist presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has investigated and examines the implications for our identity as a species.
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LibraryThing member SquirrelTao
The author, John E. Mack, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. This book is the outcome of him listening to alien abduction stories from hundreds of his patients and taking them seriously. He takes seriously that his patients had some kind of an experience that affected them
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profoundly and about which they feel and express authentic emotions. Ultimately, I feel he finesses the question of the status of the abduction reports in terms of objective reality. Still, I respect his courage to bear witness to the first hand testimonies he's heard. Show Less
LibraryThing member butlindog
great book
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1994
Physical description
464 p.; 4.5 inches
ISBN
0345393007 / 9780345393005
Other editions
Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack (Paperback)
ABDUCTION: HUMAN ENCOUNTERS WITH ALIENS by John E. Mack (Hardcover)
ABDUCTION: HUMAN ENCOUNTERS WITH ALIENS by John E. Mack (Hardcover)