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| On this page you will find information about the previous Eileen J. Garrett Library Fellows and their projects. The First Eileen J. Garrett Library Fellow Sergio Schilling.  Chilean psychologist Sergio Schilling was the successful applicant for the First Library Fellowship offered in the Fall of 2006. Due to unavoidable circumstances, Mr. Schilling’s Fellowship was postponed to January of 2007.
Schilling obtained his BA in Human Sciences in 2003 from the Universidad Diego Portales, a Licentiate in psychology in 2005 from the Universidad Internacional SEK, and completed a post-graduate specialization in clinical psychology and hypnotherapy at the Instituto Milton H. Erickson de Santiago in March of 2006. As an undergraduate student, Schilling founded the the psi research unit at Diego Portales, the only such research group in Chile. Under Schilling’s direction, the unit focuses on understanding the implications of experimental parapsychology through REG research, genetic research of psi experiencers, and the environmental factors that affect apparition experiences, among other approaches. The unit also engages in educational activities. A member of the Parapsychological Association, Schilling has received grants from that group as well as from the Parapsychology Foundation (he was the first winner of the Robert Coly Prize in 2004). He has also participated in a number of conferences and served as a consultant for local and international television shows. Currently he is working on the book series called Ciencia Limite (Boundaries of Science). The series offers a view of several scientific disciplines that investigate consciousness. Fifteen titles are planned, two have already been published: Lenguaje de La Noche edited by Stanley Krippner and Rosa Andwanter and El Poder Magico de Los Sueños written by Rosa Andwanter. While at the Garrett Library in January of 2007, Schilling used the library’s collection to prepare a review article on possession. His interest in the topic stemmed from his investigation of possession and suicide among members of an aboriginal tribe he encountered in June of 2005 in Union Embrera Katio in northeast Columbia. In a previous study, Schilling compiled data on suicide attempts and completed suicides, especially among girls and young women between the ages of 9 and 20. The community explains the deaths as the result of possession experiences. Schilling began to suspect that psychological, psychiatric, and medical causes may underlie the suicide rate, which may also be exacerbated by social and political unrest in the area. Schilling was particularly interested in the Library’s book and periodical holdings on psychiatric anthropology, abnormal psychology, genetics, general parapsychology, apparitions, poltergeist phenomena, and possession. In addition to six long and fruitful days in the Library, Schilling also spent a day site-seeing in nearby New York City. Parapsychology Foundation Executive Director Lisette Coly, and staff Drs. Nancy L. Zingrone and Carlos S. Alvarado were in residence during Schilling’s Fellowship week. “His visit was so successful,” Dr. Zingrone noted, “that he had to buy a duffle bag to carry home his xerox copies!” For more information on the Eileen J. Garrett Library Fellowship click here |
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