Jim B. Tucker

Jim B. Tucker
BornNorth Carolina, US
OccupationBonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Virginia
GenreParapsychology
Child psychiatry
SubjectReincarnation research

Jim B. Tucker is a child psychiatrist and Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.[1] His main research interests are documenting stories of children who he claims remember previous lives, and natal and prenatal memories.[2] He is the author of Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives, which presents an overview of over four decades of reincarnation research at the Division of Perceptual Studies.[3] Tucker worked for several years on this research with Ian Stevenson before taking over upon Stevenson's retirement in 2002.[4][5][6]

In addition to his publications[7][8][9][10] Tucker has appeared in broadcast media[11][12][13][14] talking about his work. His investigation of the case of Cameron Macaulay was featured in the British TV network, "Channel 5", documentary Extraordinary People - The Boy Who Lived Before.[15]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Bio". Archived from the original on 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  3. ^ Division of Perceptual Studies Archived 2002-11-16 at the Wayback Machine University of Virginia
  4. ^ Shroder, Tom (1999). Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence For Past Lives. Simon & Schuster. pp. 230–232. ISBN 0-684-85192-X.
  5. ^ Chopra, Deepak (2008). Life After Death: The Burden of Proof. Three Rivers Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-4000-5235-6. The most detailed study of such children comes from psychiatrist Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, work now being continued there by psychiatrist Jim Tucker.
  6. ^ Philip Clayton; Zachary R. Simpson (2006). The Oxford handbook of religion and science. Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 0-19-927927-6. Indirect evidence may be provided by third-person methods, such as the field studies of Ian Stevenson and his scientific successor Jim Tucker.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference nationalpost was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference sfgate was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference metro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Soul Search Discover Magazine, June 2007.
  11. ^ http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahradio/moz/20080710_oaf_moz_discoveringpastlives [dead link]
  12. ^ The Charles Adler Show CJOB/68. June 2009
  13. ^ Past Lives: Stories of Reincarnation Archived 2009-06-04 at the Wayback Machine TLC/Discovery, 2002
  14. ^ Good Morning America ABC, July 2006
  15. ^ UK Channel 5 documentary "The Boy Who Lived Before Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine" (2006) follows Jim Tucker’s investigation of the case of Cameron Macaulay