Etzel Cardeña Photographed in October 2008
Etzel Cardeña (born 1957) is Thorsen Professor of Psychology (including parapsychology and hypnosis) at Lund University, Sweden where he is Director of the Centre for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). A native of Mexico, Cardeña studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana in México and completed an MA in clinical psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada and an MA and PhD in Personality Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His doctoral thesis under the supervision of Charles Tart was on the phenomenology of deep states of hypnosis. He subsequently went on to do post-doctoral work in the area of dissociation (alterations of consciousness related to experiential detachment) and hypnosis at Stanford University under David Spiegel. [1]
Cardeña has served as President of Division 30 of the American Psychological Association and as President of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He has served as consultant to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) and is currently consulting on the development of the DSM-V. He has advised the World Health Organization in developing guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. He was President of the Parapsychological Association for the year 2008-2009.
His edited book Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence is the first scholarly volume on anomalous experiences to be published by a mainstream publisher (The American Psychological Association).
In addition to his professional work in psychology Etzel Cardeña has worked in theatre as a director, actor and playwright in Mexico, the USA and Sweden. He took graduate studies in theatre at the University of California, Davis.
- Cardeña, E., & Croyle, K. (Eds.) (2005). Acute reactions to trauma and psychotherapy: A multidisciplinary and international perspective. New York: Haworth Press. Also published as special issue of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 6(2).
- Cardeña, E., Lynn, S. J., & Krippner, S. (Eds.). (2000). Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Kirsch, I., Capafons, A., Cardeña, E., & Amigó, S. (Eds.) (1999). Clinical hypnosis and self-regulation therapy: A cognitive-behavioral perspective. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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- Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Hypnosis, Society of Psychological Hypnosis (Division 30 of APA), 2007.
- College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Award for Excellence in Research, University of Texas-Pan American, 2004.
- Morton Prince Award for cumulative contribution to research on dissociative disorders,International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD),1999.
- Early career achievement award Division 30 (Psychological Hypnosis), American Psychological Association,1995. [2]
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