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Bernard Beitman
- Type
- Person
- By
- Psychiatrist
- Affiliation
- The Coincidence Project
A psychiatrist who has spent years collecting coincidence stories and pushing the topic toward something you can study.
Bernard Beitman is the topic's most persistent clinician: a psychiatrist, a former professor at the University of Missouri, and the founder of the Coincidence Project, which has collected coincidence stories from around the world.
His contribution is organizational and clinical. He has given the field a taxonomy, an archive, and a credible public face, arguing for decades that meaningful coincidence deserves study rather than dismissal. The skeptical caveat is built into the method — case collection is a long way from controlled evidence — but Beitman has done more than anyone to make the conversation possible at all.
The meaning
He brings clinical credibility and a big archive of first hand accounts.
The skeptic
His methods are mostly case collection, which is a long way from controlled evidence.
About this person
Psychiatrist, former professor at the University of Missouri, and founder of the Coincidence Project.
Key takeaways
- Founded the Coincidence Project to collect coincidence stories worldwide.
- Author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences.
- The topic's most persistent clinical advocate.