Dr. Dr. Gary Schwartz
Brief Academic History - Past and Present
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona,
at the main campus in Tucson. In addition to teaching courses on health and spiritual psychology, he is the Director of the
Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971
and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale
University, was director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic,
before moving to Arizona in 1988.
In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the
National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for
four years. Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research
and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.
Publications and Honors
Gary has published more than four hundred and
fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy
Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The
Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in
Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.The Energy Healing Experiments (2007)
received the Gold Medal from the Nautilus Book Awards.
Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for
Behavioral Medicine
, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research. He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award
for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America
and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award
for Energy Psychology from the Association
for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.
Media
Gary is highly experienced in speaking publicly about health psychology,
energy healing, and spiritual research, and is in high demand. He has been interviewed on major network television shows including
Dateline and Good Morning America,
as well as on MSNBC, Nightline, Anderson Cooper 360, and The O’Reilly Factor. His work has been the subject of
documentaries and profiles on Discovery, HBO, Arts & Entertainment, Fox, History and the SciFi Channel, among others.
Gary has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows, including four evenings on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM, and on
PBS, CBC and BBC. His work has been described in various magazines and newspapers including USA Today,
the London Times, The New York Times, and
The LA Times, as well as a feature profile in Biography magazine.
Personal
Gary is married to Rhonda Eklund-Schwartz, an artist and writer. Rhonda's
new book Love Eternal: Breakthrough Personal and Scientific Evidence for Life After Death includes surprising evidence of the apparent role than Marcia Eklund,
her deceased mother, and Susy Smith, Gary's deceased adopted grandmother, played in bringing them together from the "other side." This extraordinary, seemingly
unbelievable evidence is provided in detail in Love Eternal.
Gary's hobbies include collecting Pacific Northwest Coast, Southwest Coast Native American, and African sculptures;
reading mysteries and non-fiction
books about science and spirituality; watching the wildlife behind his home;
listening to (and playing) smooth jazz; and walking and exploring.
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