Abducted
Subtitle: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780674018792
Subjects: Controversial Knowledge & Mysteries; Psychology; UFOs & Extraterrestrials; Cognitive Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Alien abduction
Description: How could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens ... or want to believe it? Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mlange of nightmares, culturally available texts, and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.