Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Experienced Anomalous Trauma

Laibow, Rima E.; Laue, C. Shaffia

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_8

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“…The fear generated by such experiences probably explains why the UFO intense group characterized their UFO experiences as more negative than did the UFO nonintense group. Some UFO reporters purportedly exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (Laibow, 1990). It would be of interest to examine the frequency with which the UFO experiences of these traumatized individuals involve the symptoms of sleep paralysis and the extent to which the fear inherent in sleep paralysis is exacerbated into full-blown trauma by beliefs that foster notions of extraterrestrial attack.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Close encounters: An examination of UFO experiences.

Spaños¹,

Cross²,

Dickson³

et al. 1993

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

107

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Ss who reported UFO experiences were divided into those whose experiences were nonintense (e.g., seeing lights and shapes in the sky) and those whose experiences were intense (e.g., seeing and communicating with aliens or missing time). On a battery of objective tests Ss in these 2 groups did not score as more psychopathological, less intelligent, or more fantasy prone and hypnotizable than a community comparison group or a student comparison group. However, Ss in the UFO groups believed more strongly in space alien visitation than did comparison Ss. The UFO experiences of Ss in the intense group were more frequently sleep-related than the experiences of Ss in the nonintense group. Among the combined UFO Ss, intensity of UFO experiences correlated significantly with inventories that assessed proneness toward fantasy and unusual sensory experiences. Implications are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Close encounters: An examination of UFO experiences.

Spaños¹,

Cross²,

Dickson³

et al. 1993

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

107

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“…These and similar characteristics have been described as consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder (Laibow & Laue, 1993;Powers, 1994a;J. Wilson, 1990).…”

Section: Aftereffectssupporting

confidence: 72%

Alien abduction experiences.

Appelle

Lynn

Newman

et al.

Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence.

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Elisabeth Barnes (a pseudonym) is quiet, retired, and 60 years of age; she lives alone in a small but comfortable A-frame home near Castleton, Vermont. Elisabeth is a deeply private person, is a good cook, and describes herself as an "arts-and-craftsy" person. One evening, on a small road she drove as a short-cut to her home, she recalls noticing a bright light in the sky. At first she thought it was a meteorite. When the light looked like a "dime on its side," Elisabeth felt very tired, pulled off the road, and fell asleep. She awoke some time later and, after she arrived at her home and watched her favorite television program, she realized she had experienced two hours of "missing time" she could not account for. She also complained of coughing and a strange itching feeling all over her body. About a week later, Elisabeth saw a television program about an elderly woman who was abducted by aliens. The woman was hypnotized by government agents to recall the experience. Ms. Barnes immediately identified with the woman in the program who experienced a puzzling episode of "missing time" in conjunction with her abduction. Her curiosity piqued, Ms. Barnes spoke with several of her friends and followed their suggestion to contact a lay-hypnotist in her community. The hypnotist immediately agreed to use hypnosis to help Elisabeth recover memories of what she surmised was her possible abduction by aliens.

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“…bullard identified fear, anticipation, anxiety, and recurring nightmares as aftereffects of AAEs. Such sequelae are consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder (Laibow & Laue, 1993;Powers, 1994a;Wilson, 1990).…”

Section: Aftereffectsmentioning

confidence: 64%

“…One theory is based on a correlation between reported AAEs and reported childhood abuse (e.g., Laibow & Laue, 1993;Powers, 1994aPowers, , 1994bring & rosing, 1990;rodeghier et al, 1991). Some theorists have suggested that this association reflects actual childhood abuse manifesting as "screen" (or false) memories of alien abduction.…”

Section: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alien abduction experiences.

Appelle¹,

Lynn²,

Newman³

et al. 2014

Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (2nd Ed.).

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Ms. Jessica White (a pseudonym) is a quiet, retired lady of 60 years who lives alone in her small home near Lake Placid, New York. One morning she experienced a horrifying nightmare in which she felt a "creature" with cold hands and large eyes pressing down on her with a suffocating and paralyzing force. She tried to move, but her body did not respond; in fact, she had the strange sense that her consciousness was out of her body, watching her rendered helpless. She tried to scream, but words would not escape her mouth. She heard humming and strange noises and experienced an eerie sense that other creatures were nearby, watching in a cold, detached way. The feeling that she was somehow violated, surely emotionally, possibly physically, lingered throughout the day and returned in what she called "flashbacks" during the week.The only stories to which Jessica could relate her bizarre experience were accounts she had read about people abducted by aliens. Perhaps that

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Experienced Anomalous Trauma

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Close encounters: An examination of UFO experiences.

Close encounters: An examination of UFO experiences.

Alien abduction experiences.

Alien abduction experiences.

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