Satwant Pasricha is the head of Department of Clinical Psychology at

NIMHANS The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences is a medical institution in Bangalore, India. NIMHANS is the apex centre for mental health and neuroscience education in the country. It is an Institute of National Importance operates ...

, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences at

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. She also worked for a time at the

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School of Medicine in the USA. Pasricha investigates

reincarnation Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrectio ...

and

near-death experience A near-death experience (NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death which researchers claim share similar characteristics. When positive, such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detac ...

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To Hell, and Back
''Rediff on the NeT'', April 6, 1999. Accessed 2009-01-27. Pasricha co-authored the 2011 book ''Making sense of near-death experiences'', which was Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012

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Book Awards.

Work

Pasricha has investigated and participated in about 500 cases of reincarnation involving children (referred to as subjects) since 1973 who claim to remember previous lives. She became interested in working in

parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena ( extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related t ...

because she was not satisfied with the conventional explanations of certain paranormal or unusual behavior.Satwant Pasricha
''The Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology''. Accessed 2009-01-27. Pasricha studies not just the characteristics of reincarnation prevalent in India, but also suggests ways they are similar or different from those of people in other countries. She collaborated with

Ian Stevenson 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 ...

in reincarnation research beginning in the 1970s. She joined NIMHANS ( Deemed University) as a faculty in December 1980 as a lecturer in Clinical Parapsychology; and then was promoted to Assistant professor, Associate professor and Additional Professor of Clinical Psychology. She is also involved in clinical work such as patient care and teaching and research in the areas of her interest at NIMHANS. Prof. Satwant Pasricha of the

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appreciates her work on the subject, but he also places not verifiable truth like "rebirth" and “reincarnation” out of the domain of the scientific knowledge. Many other scientists label them as a hallucinatory experience and as "a physiological state occurring within an oxygen starved brain."

Selected publications

* Satwant Pasricha, ''Can the Mind Survive Beyond Death? In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence (2 Vol.)'', New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 2008. . * Satwant Pasricha, ''Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India'', New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 1990. . * Satwant Pasricha, Near-Death Experiences in South India: A Systematic Survey. '' Journal of Scientific Exploration'', 9(1), 1995. * Ian Stevenson, Satwant Pasricha and Nicholas McClean-Rice, A Case of the Possession Type in India With Evidence of Paranormal Knowledge. ''Journal of Scientific Exploration'', 3(1):81-101, 1989.

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To Hell, And Back

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