During 1982, Alvin Lawson publishes an article entitled “A Testable Hypothesis For The Origin of Fallacious Abductions Reports: Birth Trauma Imagery In CEIII Narratives”.
Web Resources
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The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.
Book References
The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.
Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.
For discussion of Lawson’s Birth Trauma Hypothesis see the following:
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Discussion by:
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Cassirer, Manfred in his “Dimensions of Enchantment” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-161, 162 (in Chapter 11) of the Breese Books softcover edition. |
3 |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-7 (in an entry entitled “Abduction Phenomenon”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
2 |
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Coomer, David in his “The UFO Investigator’s Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softback edition. |
2 |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 100, 102-103 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
3 |
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Evans, Hilary in “Frontiers of Reality” (1989) (edited by Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 186-187 (in Chapter 12) of the Guild publishing hardback edition. |
2 |
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Evans, Hilary in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 453 (in an entry entitled “Psychosocial aspects of UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 443 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
1 |
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Evans, Hilary in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 546 (in an entry entitled “Psychosocial aspects of UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
1 |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 180 (in Chapter 7) of the Carlton hardback edition. |
1 |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (in Chapter 6) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
1 |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “The Allagash Abductions” (1993) at page 323 (in Chapter 13) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
1 |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “The Watchers“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xxii (in the Prologue) of the Bantam paperback edition. |
1 |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 3) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
1 |
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Harbinson, W A in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-32 (unnumbered chapter entitled “Abductions: the inside story” generally) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
3 |
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Howarth, Les G in his “If In Doubt, Blame The Aliens” (2000) at pages 103-105 (in Chapter 5) of the Iuniverse softcover edition. Entire text available online to “browse before you buy” at: http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=0595156932&page=fm9 |
3 |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “Secret Life” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 300-301 (in Chapter 11) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Fourth Estate hardback edition and in the Virgin paperback edition published under the title “Alien Encounters”). |
2 |
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Lawson, Alvin H in “Cyberbiological studies of the imaginal component in the UFO contact experience” (1989) (edited by Stillings, Dennis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-141 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Testable Theory for UFO abduction reports : The Birth Memories Hypothesis”) of the Archaeus edition. |
17 |
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Lawson, Alvin in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-116 (in an entry entitled “birth memories hypothesis”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 113-115 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
3 |
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Lawson, Alvin in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-132 (in an entry entitled “birth memories hypothesis”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
4 |
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Lawson, Alvin in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-29 (unnumbered chapter entitled “The aliens within” generally) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
4 |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
1 |
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Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 244-245 (in Chapter 15) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
2 |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ and Cone, William in their “The Abduction Enigma” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-237 (in Chapter 15) of the Forge hardback edition. |
6 |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145, 148 (in Chapter 10) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 202-204 (in Chapter 10) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback edition). |
3 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Star Children” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 175 (in Chapter 12) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 480-481 (in Part 4) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-175 (in Chapter 13) of the Granada paperback edition. |
2 |
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Rimmer, John in his “The Evidence for Alien Abductions” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-118 (in Chapter 5) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
5 |
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Rogo, D. Scott in “The Tujunga Canyon Contacts” (1980) (by D. Scott Rogo and Ann Druffel) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 314-315 (in Part |
2 |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-130 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1977-1987”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
2 |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (in an entry entitled “Birth Trauma Hypothesis”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 51-52 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Other Material
Lawson, A.H.; "Birth Trauma Imagery in CE-III Narratives", in "International UPIAR Colloquium on Human Sciences and UFO Phenomena Proceedings", Salzburg, July 26-29, 1982, 103
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