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May

08

From Crackpots to Survivors: How Contact With Aliens Was Pathologized

by UCL Health Humanities Centre / Institute of Advanced Studies

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Mon, 8 May 2017

18:00 – 19:30 BST

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UCL SELCS Common Room, Foster Court (ground floor, G24), Malet Place

Malet Place

London

WC1E

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Professor Greg Eghighian (Penn State University, USA)

NASA/American Historical Association Fellow in Aerospace History

While the first reports of flying saucer sightings appeared in 1947, it was not until the 1950s that witnesses began claiming to have encountered extraterrestrial visitors. Throughout the fifties and sixties, the reports of “contactees” tended to emphasize the shyness and benign nature of extraterrestrials. Over the course of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, however, the stories increasingly revolved around terrifying encounters with coercive aliens engaged in performing human experiments. And as the tales became more gruesome, psychiatrists and psychotherapists began playing a growing role in analyzing and counseling self-professed “abductees.” In this talk, I will discuss how and why this happened and some of the consequences it has had for contactees, clinicians, and critics.

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