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Ben Alderson-Day
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781526184948
  • Weight: 630g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Mar 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

A psychologist sets out to understand the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence.

We all know the feeling: you’re alone but it’s like there’s someone there with you – a mysterious presence lurking just out of sight. Throughout history this experience has been the subject of religious and supernatural speculation. But does science have the answer?

In Presence, psychologist Ben Alderson-Day digs into historical accounts and contemporary cases of ‘felt presence’, hunting for the key to unlock this strange phenomenon. He interviews ultrarunners and ocean rowers, who often report the sensation of being accompanied on their journeys, and examines the latest work on sleep paralysis, dementia and Parkinson’s, conditions closely associated with feeling the presence of someone or something that isn’t there.

His findings, built on cutting-edge research from psychology and neuroscience, provide remarkable new insights into this longstanding mystery of the human mind.
About Ben Alderson-Day
Ben Alderson-Day is a Professor of Psychology and the Co-Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities at Durham University. He is the co-founder of the Early Career Hallucinations Research group and the Scientific Chair of the International Consortium on Hallucinations Research. A specialist in atypical cognition and mental health, his work spans cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy and child development. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with his wife and two daughters.

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