Jan Holden & Lee Kinsey – Healthcare Professionals’ Responses to NDE Disclosure

Jan Holden & Lee Kinsey – Healthcare Professionals’ Responses to NDE Disclosure

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Facilitating or Blocking the Passage: Healthcare Professionals’ Responses to Near-Death Experience Disclosure
Janice Holden and Lee Kinsey

Researchers have found that response to near-death experience (NDE) disclosure plays an important role—for good or ill—in near-death experiencers (NDErs) integration of their NDEs. However, in both conference presentations and the professional literature, near-death experiencers (NDErs) have described disastrous experiences of disclosing their NDEs to healthcare providers, being met with disbelief, dismissal, diagnosis, and demonizing. In our review of the professional literature, we found no wide-scale study of NDErs’ experiences of disclosing to healthcare providers. Our purpose in this study was to begin to remedy that gap. Eighty-eight NDErs reported on 188 experiences of disclosing their NDEs. The author-developed Near-Death Experiencers’ Experiences of Disclosure Scale (NEEDS) proved valid and reliable. Among the results were extent of harmful vs. helpful disclosure experiences and whether quality of disclosure experience varied by type of healthcare professional (medical, mental health, or religious/spiritual) or by year of NDE, timing of disclosure (immediate or delayed), and depth of NDE. The presenter will conclude by addressing implications for healthcare providers who work with NDErs and their educators and for future NDE researchers.

More about Jan Holden: https://www.coe.unt.edu/facultystaff-department/janice-miner-holden

For more information on near-death experiences, visit http://iands.org
For information about IANDS conferences, visit http://conference.iands.org

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  1. NOT SURE BUT I THINK A MONKEY WRENCH MAY HAVE JUST BEEN REVEALED IN THIS PARTICULAR STUDY SHE'S TALKING ABOUT. WHEN THE STAT THAT SHOWED AN ENTIRE ONE-THIRD OF PARTICIPANTS SAID THAT THEY'D HAD 3 OR MORE NDE'S I NEARLY FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR ! LOL I THINK MOST WHO ARE WELL VERSED IN ALL THINGS NDE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT MOST WHO HAVE THEM ONLY HAVE ONE, WITH TWO BEING AN ANOMALY. BUT THREE ? THREE ? UHHHH, THAT KINDA TELLS ME THAT A THIRD OF THOSE GOING INTO THIS STUDY ARE OF THE " GREEN NIGHT VISION GHOST HUNTER/PARANORMAL TV TYPES " WHO LIVE IN POSSUM STEW WEST VIRGINIA. LOL