Consciousness and Experiential Psychology

Consciousness and Experiential Psychology (CEP) is is a section of the British Psychological Society (BPS) for those interested in the psychology of consciousness and experience. Initiated in 1994 by Jane Henry, Max Velmans, John Pickering, Elizabeth Valentine and Richard Stevens, the section promoted and supported the reincorporation of consciousness studies into mainstream psychology. Official approval for CEP was announced in 1997 during the BPS Annual Conference. The section’s mission is ‘to advance our understanding of consciousness, to bring scientific research on consciousness closer to other traditions of inquiry into the nature of mind, and to explore how this research can be used to improve the quality of life’. As of 2010 Susan Stuart is the section Chair. Every year in September the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology section holds its annual conference, usually in Oxford.
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The Consciousness and Experiential Psychology section is one of thirteen sections of the British Psychological Society. This section is for anyone interested in broad-based, rigorous academic exploration of consciousness and experience. The section is an interest group comprising members of the British Psychological Society and also unaffiliated members. Consciousness and Experiential Psychology was the first and remains the only only subsection of a nationally representative body of professional psychologists devoted to the study of Consciousness.

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