bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
May 12, 2023
S. Parker Singleton, Christopher Timmermann, Andrea I. Luppi et al.
18 citations
preprint
Psychedelics offer a profound window into the functioning of the human brain and mind through their robust acute effects on perception, subjective experience, and brain activity patterns. In recent work using a receptor-informed network control theory framework, we demonstrated that the serotonergic psychedelics lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin flatten the brain's control energy...
May 9, 2023
Karen Peoples
1 citation
In this chapter, Karen Peoples weaves together CJ and psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the “infinite unconscious” to provide a framework for working therapeutically with mystical and NOSC. She offers the reader numerous considerations for the therapist’s access to and containment of unconscious energies, working with the subtle body to facilitate sensory-energetic transformations in...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
May 1, 2023
D. Rapoport
We discuss the torsion geometries as the universal dynamical setting for the five-fold symmetry and its relation to nonorientable surfaces of selfreference embodying a supradual logophysics, rooted in the Möbius strip and Klein Bottle. We frame the discussion in terms of image-schemas in cognitive semantics and their disruption stemming from supraduality and nonorientability. We present the...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
April 29, 2023
Riccardo Stefanelli
11 citations
Disorders of consciousness represent an efficient way to test theories of consciousness' (ToCs) predictions. So far, ToCs have mostly focused on disorders of quantitative awareness such as coma, vegetative state, spatial neglect and hemianopia. Psychiatric disorders, by contrast, have received little attention, leaving their contribution to consciousness research almost unexplored. Therefore,...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
April 27, 2023
Tsutomu Kumazaki, Naoki Hayashi
Abstract The present article revisits the theoretical model of schizophrenia by Hiroshi YASUNAGA (1929–2011). Yasunaga restated ego disturbance in schizophrenia as the “Pattern Reversal” between selfhood and otherness, based on British philosopher Wauchope's concept of “pattern.” This concept is meant as asymmetrical relatedness (A/B) within a pair of concepts, such as life and death, quality...
Religions
April 27, 2023
Anja L. Winter, Pehr Granqvist
In this conceptual paper, we suggest that attachment theory is a viable framework for understanding key aspects of embodied religious and spiritual cognition, as seen in religious and spiritual metaphors, rituals, anthropomorphisms, and more. We also discuss embodied cognition as part of mystical experiences and other altered states of consciousness that may occur both within and outside of...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
April 18, 2023
Martin Breyton, Jan Fousek, Giovanni Rabuffo et al.
preprint
Signatures of consciousness are found in spectral and temporal properties of neuronal activity. Among these, spatiotemporal complexity after a perturbation has recently emerged as a robust metric to infer levels of consciousness. Perturbation paradigms remain, however, difficult to perform routinely. To discover alternative paradigms and metrics, we systematically explore brain stimulation and...
Scientific Reports
April 17, 2023
Rubén Herzog, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas et al.
51 citations
Psychedelic drugs, including lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other agonists of the serotonin 2A receptor (5HT2A-R), induce drastic changes in subjective experience, and provide a unique opportunity to study the neurobiological basis of consciousness. One of the most notable neurophysiological signatures of psychedelics, increased entropy in spontaneous neural activity, is thought to be of...
Антология российской психотерапии и психологии
March 31, 2023
О. О. Прокофьева
Позитивная динамическая психотерапия – это российский психодинамический метод с экзистенциальными аспектами, обогащенный транскультуральным подходом и поведенческими техниками. Наибольшее влияние на экзистенциальную психотерапию в ХХ веке оказала философия М. Хайдеггера и С. Л. Франка. Взгляды этих философов во многом были противоположны и образовали два смысловых полюса экзистенциализма. И. И....
March 30, 2023
Valeria Becattini, Anna Ciaunica
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Deep contemplative states such as meditative states alter the subjective experience of being a self distinct from the world and others to a point that the individual may report ‘selfless’ states. In this paper, we propose a shift in focus on homeostatic bodily self-regulation underlying selfless experiences. We suggest that during reported phenomena of ‘self-loss’ or ‘pure consciousness’, the...