Presence : the strange science and true stories of the unseen other / Ben Alderson-Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alderson-Day, Ben, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirits.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor in Psychology and a Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. A specialist in atypical cognition and mental health, his work spans cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, and child development.

Summary:

This title charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

Epigraph

Preface

I Phantom Others

1 A Thickness in the Air

2 "Things Which Can Never Be Spoken Of"

3 The Double

4 Luke

5 The Presence Robot

6 "I'll Set the Table for Three People When It's Just Me and My Wife"

II Fellow Travelers

7 The Walnut of Reality

8 The Marathon Monk of Billingham

9 Seeing Darkness

10 Spirit

11 In Two Minds

12 You Never Asked

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 16, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526173492

1526173492

9781526173515

1526173514

OCLC:

1467877481