by Athena A. Drewes
Author: Athena Drewes
Athena Drewes
Athena A. Drewes, Psy.D., RPT-S, is a licensed child psychologist, registered
play therapist, clinical parapsychologist, and an experiencer, with past life
memories and exceptional experiences since childhood. Her involvement in
parapsychology began in her 20’s as a research assistant at the Dream Lab
(Division of Parapsychology and Psychophysics) at Maimonides Medical
Center in Brooklyn, NY assisting with dream telepathy experiments with Dr.
Stanley Krippner and Charles Honorton.
She is on the Advisory Board of the Rhine Research Center and Professional
Member of the Parapsychological Association. Dr. Drewes has been active in
the field of parapsychology for over 45 years, conducting research, writing
articles and reviews, presenting on children and their exceptional experiences, and running adult and child Psychic Experiences Groups. She has been featured on the CBS production “Psychic Children” and on “Paranormal State.” Dr. Drewes has an informational website, perceptivechildren.org, to help parents and children understand their experiences.
Dr. Drewes is senior editor, with Dr. Sally A. Drucker, of the reference work,
"Parapsychological Research with Children: An Annotated Bibliography," and is currently working on an edited volume "Children’s Spirituality and Exceptional Experiences: A Clinician’s Guide," for Routledge. Dr. Drewes currently works with clinicians to be sensitive to children sharing their exceptional experiences and not pathologizing them and is the facilitator of Clinical Exceptional Experiences Network (CEEN) working toward this end.
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