About Me
Renaud Evrard is a clinical psychologist working in adult psychiatry. In 2012, he obtained a PhD in psychology at the University of Rouen, France, with a thesis on “clinical differential practice with exceptional experiences”.
He's a member of the Student group of the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI), Paris since 2004, and is also a student associate with the Parapsychological Association (Student co-representative in 2010), the Society for Psychical Research, the Society for Scientific Exploration, and the Gesellschaft fur Anomalistik. His main interests are on clinical, historical and theoretical aspects of parapsychology.
He received several grants and prizes for his work, among them the 2008 Eileen Garrett scholarship (Parapsychology Foundation), the 2009 Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award (Parapsychological Association), and the 2011 Bourse Etudiants de l'Institut Métapsychique International. He co-founded in 2009 the Center for Information, Research and Counselling on Exceptional Experiences. Since 2010, he developed with Nikolaos Koumartzis the project World of Parapsychology, to improve interactions between researchers in parapsychology all around the world. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin Métapsychique, journal of the IMI.
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Selective publications
Evrard, R. (2012). A report on the 3rd international expert-meeting on clinical parapsychology.Paranormal Review, 63, 19-21.
Rabeyron, T., & Evrard, R. (2012). Perspectives historiques et contemporaines sur l'occulte dans la correspondance Freud-Ferenczi.Recherches en psychanalyse, n°13, 97-111. / Rabeyron, T., & Evrard, R. (2012). Historical and contemporary perspectives on occultism in the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence.Recherches en psychanalyse, n°13, 98-111.
Evrard, R., & Rabeyron, T. (2012). Les psychanalystes et le transfert de pensée : enjeux historiques et actuelles. Accepted by L'Evolution Psychiatrique.
Evrard, R. (2012). Marges du savoir et imaginaires autour de la figure de l'adolescent dans l'occultisme. In G. Bertin (dir.),Imaginaires, savoirs, connaissance (pp. 421-429). Angers : Editions du CNAM Pays-de-la-Loire.
Evrard, R. (2012). Spirituality as an anti-psychopathological discourse on exceptional experiences. In C.A. Stark & D.C. Bonner (Ed.),Handbook of Spirituality: Belief Systems, Societal Impact and Roles in Coping (pp. 279-289). London : Nova Publishers.
Evrard, R. (2012). Clinical Practice of Anomalous Experiences: Roots and Paradigms. In : C.D. Murray (Ed.),Anomalous Experiences and Mental Health (pp. 89-106). London : Nova Publishers.
Alvarado, C.S., & Evrard, R. (2012). The Psychic Sciences in France: Historical Notes on the Annales des Sciences Psychiques.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 26(1), 117-140.
Evrard, R. (2011). Review of Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France by M. Brady Brower.Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 75(2), 115-118.
Evrard, R. (2011). Pierre Curie, a foot in parapsychology? Mindfield, 3(3), 14-18.
Evrard, R. (2011). No Future : la parapsychologie et la malédiction du Trickster.Bulletin Métapsychique, n°8, "Le Trickster, phénomène marginal au coeur de la métapsychique ?", 14-18.
Evrard, R. (2011). [Studying Parapsychology]. In N. Koumartzis (Ed.), [The White Book of Parapsychology] (pp. 324-335). Thessaloniki : iWrite Publications.
Evrard, R. (2011). Les expériences réputées psychotiques dans la population générale : essai de problématisation.Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 169(5), 282-287.
Evrard, R. (2011). Cuando El Premio Nobel Pierre Curie se encontró con la médium Eusapia Palladino [Traduction : Jorge Villanueva].E-Boletín Psi, 6(1), 3-12.
Evrard, R. (2010). Rezension des Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred von Jeffrey Kripal.Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 10(1+2), 145-148.
Evrard, R., & Le Maléfan, P. (2010). Pression des nouvelles mentalités sur le DSM - le cas des problèmes religieux ou spirituels.L'Evolution Psychiatrique, 75(4), 549-563.
Evrard, R. (2010). Psychiser le Maître absolu : solutions pubertaires par le paranormal.Adolescence, 28(4), n°74 « Construction », 841-854.
Evrard, R. (2010). The Diva and the Nobelists: When Pierre and Marie Curie studied Eusapia Palladino at the Institut Général Psychologique (1905-1908) [Abstract].Journal of Parapsychology, 74(2), 241-243.
Evrard, R. (2010). Differential clinical practice of anomalous experiences [Abstract].Journal of Parapsychology, 74(2), 266-267.
Evrard, R. (2010). Schizotypie ou névrose ? la place des expériences réputées psychotiques.Perspectives psychiatriques, 49(3), 230-240.
Evrard, R., & Koumartzis, N. (2010). Toward a cross-cultural view of parapsychology.Paranthropology, 1(2), 29-30.
Koumartzis, N., & Evrard, R. (2010). " World of Parapsychology " : visit, participate, make it grow.Paranormal Review, n°56, 17-20.
Varvoglis, M., & Evrard, R. (2010). Institut Métapsychique International.Mindfield, 2(3), 10-11.
Evrard, R. (2010). Keine Zukunft: Parapsychologie und der Fluch des Tricksters [Traduction : Gerd Hövelmann].Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 9(1-2-3).
Evrard, R. (2010). Il Libro Bianco della Parapsicologia: una sintesi. [Traduction : Bruno Severi].Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 42(1), 60-83.
Evrard, R. (2010). Parapsychology in France after May 1968: a history of the GERP.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 24(2), 283-294.
Evrard, R. (2010). Obituary: Rémy Chauvin (1913-2009). Journal of Scientific Exploration, 24(2), 299-303.
Evrard, R., & Le Maléfan, P. (2010). Une marge de la psychopathologie moderne : les « enfants indigo ».L’information psychiatrique, 86, 413-421.
Evrard, R. (2010). Contribution à l'histoire de la parapsychologie en France 1935-1968, l'ère du réalisme fantastique. The Missing Links, 1(2), 35-56.
Le Maléfan, P., & Evrard, R. (2009). Comments on two Anglo-Saxon theories of the "exit outside the body". In: C.D. Murray (Ed.),Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out of Body and Near Death Experiences(pp. 71-72). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Evrard, R. (2009). René Sudre (1880-1968): The Metapsychist's Quill. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 73(4), 207-222.
Evrard, R. (2009). Joseph Maxwell: jurist, physician, psychist (1858-1938). Psypioneer, 5(1), 21-27.