John Mack
Harvard psychiatrist whose clinical study of self-described alien abductees drew both attention and controversy
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| Born | 1929 |
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| Died | 2004 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Category | Scientist |
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| Roles | Professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
| Status | Mainstream credentialsConclusions disputed |
John Mack was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist who, beginning in the early 1990s, conducted extensive clinical interviews with individuals reporting alien abduction experiences, treating their accounts as psychologically genuine and worthy of serious study regardless of their ultimate objective reality.
Assessment
Mack’s willingness to engage seriously with abductee accounts, in a manner similar to but distinct from researcher David Jacobs, led Harvard Medical School to convene an unusual faculty review of his methods in 1994, which ultimately reaffirmed his academic freedom without endorsing his conclusions about the objective nature of the reported experiences.
[1]See also
References
- ^ Mack, J. E. (1994). Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens.
Categories: United States Scientist