Etzel Cardeña

About Etzel Cardeña

Etzel Cardeña holds the endowed Thorsen Professorship in Psychology at Lund University, where he leads the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). His main areas of research include alterations of consciousness and anomalous experiences (including psi), dissociative and posttraumatic reactions, the neurophenomenology of hypnosis and transcendent experiences, and the stream of consciousness during waking and altered states.

He was born and raised in México City and did postgraduate work in Canada and the US, culminating in a Ph. D. from the University of California, Davis (Charles Tart, supervisor) and a postdoc position at Stanford University (David Spiegel, supervisor). He has about 400 publications, some in top journals in psychology and related disciplines such as American Journal of Psychiatry, American Psychologist, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and others. His research, theoretical, pedagogical, and historical contributions have received many awards from various professional organizations.

His publications have been covered by various media including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the BBC, and many other media, and he has also worked professionally as a theater visiting artist, director, actor, and playwright.

For a fairly comprehensive list of publications go to: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/etzel-cardeña

Academic Activities

Publications

Books

Cardeña, E., & Winkelman, M. (2011). Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume I. History, culture, and the humanities. Santa Barbara, CA:Praeger Publishers.

Cardeña, E., & Winkelman, M. (2011). Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume II. Biological and psychological perspectives. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Articles

Cardeña, E., Lehmann, D., Faber, P. L., Jönsson, P., Milz, P., Pascual-Marqui, R. D., & Kochi, K. (2012). EEG sLORETA functional imaging during hypnotic arm levitation and voluntary arm lifting. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 60, 31-53. doi 10.1080/00207144.2011.622184

Cardeña, E., & Carlson, E. (2011). Acute Stress Disorder revisited. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 7, 245-267. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032210-104502

Terhune, D. B., Cardeña, E., & Lindgren, M. (2011). Differential frontal-parietal connectivity during hypnosis as a function of hypnotic suggestibility. Psychophysiology, 48, 1444-1447.doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01211.x

Moreira-Almeida, A., & Cardeña, E. (2011). Differential diagnosis between non-pathological psychotic and spiritual experiences and mental disorders: A contribution from Latin American studies to the ICD-11. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 33 Suppl. 1, S29-S36.

Also published in Portuguese as
Moreira-Almeida, A., & Cardeña, E. (2011). Diagnóstico diferencial entre experiências espirituais e psicóticas não patológicas e transtornos mentais: uma contribuição de estudos latino-americanos para o CID-11. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 33 Supl 1, S21-S28.

Spiegel, D., Loewenstein, R., Lewis-Fernandez, R., Sar, V., Simeon, D., Vermetten, E., Cardeña, E., & Dell, P., (2011). Dissociative disorders in DSM-5. Depression and Anxiety, 28, E17-E45. doi:10.1002/da.20923

Cardeña, E. (2011). One split too many. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 14, 457-460, doi 10.1080/15299732.2011.570238.
Cardeña, E., & Bowman, E. (Eds.) (2011). Defining (structural) dissociation: A debate. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 14,413-415, doi 10.1080/15299732.2011.570585.

Terhune, D. B., Cardeña, E., & Lindgren, M. (2011). Dissociated control as a signature of typological variability in high hypnotic suggestibility. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 727.736.

Cardeña, E. (2011). Guest editorial. On wolverines and epistemological totalitarianism. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25,539-551.

An earlier version also published as
Cardeña, E. (2011). Guest editorial. On wolverines and epistemological totalitarianism. Journal of Parapsychology, 75, 3-14.

Cardeña, E. & Alvarado, C. (2011). Altered consciousness from the Age of Enlightenment through mid 20th century. In E. Cardeña, & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume I. History, culture, and the humanities (pp. 89-112). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Cardeña, E. (2011). Altering consciousness: Setting up the stage. InE. Cardeña, & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume I. History, culture, and the humanities (pp. 1-21). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Cardeña, E. (2011). Altered consciousness in emotion and psychopathology. In E. Cardeña, & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume II. Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 279-299). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Granqvist,, P., Reijman, S. & Cardeña E. (2011). Altered consciousness and human development. In E. Cardeña, & M. Winkelman (in press). Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume II. Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 211-234). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Cardeña, E. (2011). Introduction. In E. Cardeña, & M. Winkelman (2011). Altering consciousness. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Volume II. Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 13-16).Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Chu, J. A., Dell, P.F., van der Hart, O., Cardeña, E., Somer, E., Brand, B., et al. (2011). Guidelines for treating dissociative identity disorder in adults 3rd revision. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 12, 115-187.

Cardeña, E. (2011). Altered consciousness is a many splendored thing. Journal of Cosmology, 14, 4781-4791 (volume edited by Sir Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff). http://journalofcosmology.com/Consciousness150.html

Terhune, D. B., Cardeña, E., & Lindgren, M. (2011). Dissociative tendencies and individual differences in high hypnotic suggestibility. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 16, 113-135.

Kirsch, I., Cardeña, E., Derbyshire, S., Dienes, Z., Heap, M., Kallio, S., et al. (2011). Definitions of hypnosis and hypnotizability and their relation to suggestion and suggestibility. A consensus statement. Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy, 28, 107-115.

Also published as:
Kirsch, I., Cardeña, E., Derbyshire, S., Dienes, Z., Heap, M., Kallio, S., et al. (2011). Definitionen von Hypnose und Hypnotisierbarkeit unde deren Bezug zur Suggestion un Suggestibilitaät. Ein Konsensus Statement. In B. Peter & U. Halsband (Eds). Festschrift für Vladimir Gheorghiu (Vol. 6 of Hypnose-ZHH) (pp. 11-21). München: www.MEG-Stiftung.de.

Cardeña, E. (2011). Response to Neal Grossman’s reply “On elephants and matters epistemological.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25, 805.

Cardeña, E. (2011). It does end with a bang [Review of the filmMelancholia by Lars von Trier]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 56 (47), Article 10. Retrieved from the PsycCRITIQUES database doi: 10.1037/a0025657.

Cardeña, E. (2011, August 10). Does hypnotic responsiveness come in more than one flavor and, if so, should clinicians care? Expert commentary for: the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Members’ Clinical Corner, August 10, 2011, http://www.isst-d.org/membersonly/members-clinical.asp.

Cardeña, E. & Reijman, S. (2011). Everyman 2010 [Review of the film Biutiful by Alejandro González Iñárritu]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 56 (23), Article 9. Retrieved from the PsycCRITIQUES database doi: 10.1037/a0023275

Cardeña, E. (2011). A melancholy riff on life and death [Review of the film Hereafter by Clint Eastwood]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 56 (18), doi: 10.1037/a0023691

Cardeña, E. (2011). Summa contra condescension. Review of the book Absence of Mind: The dispelling of inwardness from the myth of the self by Marilynne Robinson. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 56 (15) doi:10.1037/a0022787

Cardeña, E. (2011). Review of the book Feeling unreal: Depersonalization disorder and the loss of the self by DaphneSimeon, & Abugel, J. (2006). American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 53, 234-235 (a previous, incorrectly edited version published in 2010).

Artistic Activities