The Mystical Experience as a Suicide Preventive
American Journal of Psychiatry March 1, 1973 Paul Horton
Three suicidal adolescents suffering from schizophrenic reactions developed the ability to conjure up a mystical consciousness. Directly experiencing this "oceanic" state (or just its memory) provided the patients with a reliably soothing safeguard against their overwhelming loneliness and possible suicide. Recognition by the psychiatrist of the mystical state as a transitional phenomenon...
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.130.3.294 (opens in new tab)
Mysticism
Loneliness
Consciousness
Phenomenon
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