ABSTRACT After a definition of what the psychoanalysts used to call “hysteria,” then conversion disorder, Mark Solms shows us two central aspects that place functional neurological disorder at the center of interest for neuropsychoanalysis: (1) conversion disorder represents the inverse of the hard problem of consciousness. The hard problem of consciousness asks how the organic processes...
The aim of the present review is to investigate previous studies concerning the effects of meditation and dispositional mindfulness on conscious and implicit or non-conscious attitudes. First we present a brief perspective on conscious and non-conscious states of mind. Then we introduce the fundamental bases of mindfulness meditation. Third we review studies on dispositional mindfulness and...
Although most aspects of world and self-consciousness are inherently subjective, neuroscience studies in humans and non-human animals provide correlational and causative indices of specific links between brain activity and representation of the self and the world. In this article we review neuroanatomic, neurophysiological and neuropsychological data supporting the hypothesis that different...