Clínica y Salud
2010
Pérez-Álvarez Marino, M. García-Montes José, Sass Louis
19 citations
This study describes the contributions that phenomenology can make to our understanding of schizophrenia. It begins by showing that phenomenology is recovering the psychopathological tradition lost after the success of the DSM-III and the establishment of neurobiology as the dominant approach. Its contributions are described in three parts: its conceptualization, evaluation and treatment of...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2010
Harry T. Hunt
9 citations
Although transpersonal psychologies of self realization emphasize individual development, earlier shamanic traditions also showed a central societal aspect and group based consciousness. Indeed, many have understood the transpersonal movement as developing towards an abstract globalized neo-shamanism. That altered states of consciousness, whether as integrative realizations of the numinous or...
Time and Mind
2010
Michael Winkelman
3 citations
(2010). Introduction: Anthropologies of Consciousness. Time and Mind: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 125-134.
Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience
2010
Sebastian Dieguez
Ernest Hemingway is one of the most popular and widely acclaimed American writers of the 20th century. His works and life epitomize the image of the hyper-masculine hero, facing the cruelties of life with 'grace under pressure'. Most of his writings have a quasi-autobiographical quality, which allowed many commentators to draw comparisons between his personality and his art. Here, we examine...
History of the Human Sciences
2010
Nicolas Langlitz
32 citations
The elimination of subjectivity through brain research and the replacement of so-called "folk psychology" by a neuroscientifically enlightened worldview and self-conception has been both hoped for and feared. But this cultural revolution is still pending. Based on nine months of fieldwork on the revival of hallucinogen research since the "Decade of the Brain," this paper examines how subjective...
Journal of Medical Case Reports
December 10, 2009
Amr A Guenedi, Ala'Alddin Al Hussaini, Yousif A Obeid et al.
9 citations
The view that spirits may possess humans is found in 90% of the world population, including Arab/Islamic societies. Despite the association between possessive states and various neurological and psychiatric disorders, the available literature has yet to correlate possessive states with functional brain imaging modalities such as single-photon-emission computed tomography. This paper describes...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 1, 2009
Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Golan Shahar
Sleep-related experiences [Watson, D. (2001). Dissociations of the night: Individual differences in sleep-related experiences and their relation to dissociation and schizotypy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 526-535] refer to a host of nocturnal altered-consciousness phenomena, including narcoleptic tendencies, nightmares, problem-solving dreams, waking dreams, and lucid dreams. In an...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
November 1, 2009
Staci A Gruber, Jadwiga Rogowska, Deborah A Yurgelun-Todd
More than 94 million Americans have tried marijuana, and it remains the most widely used illicit drug in the nation. Investigations of the cognitive effects of marijuana report alterations in brain function during tasks requiring executive control, including inhibition and decision-making. Endogenous cannabinoids regulate a variety of emotional responses, including anxiety, mood control, and...
Psychopharmacology
November 1, 2009
Dagmar Koethe, Carolin Hoyer, F Markus Leweke
Model psychosis is characterised by experimentally induced symptoms of withdrawal from reality, frequently accompanied by perceptual disturbances, thought disorders, delusional ideas and sometimes by hallucinations. These "altered states of consciousness" provide a long-standing and valid approach to enhance our understanding of certain aspects of schizophrenia. Targeting the endocannabinoid...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
October 2009
István Szendi, Zoltán Ambrus Kovács, György Szekeres et al.
In a study of the linguistic processes involved in hypnosis, 22 volunteer medical students performed semantic and phonologic fluency tasks and then associative priming tests with 2 delay-lengths in waking alert and hypnotic conditions as well. The participants performed better during semantic than phonological fluency tests in alert and also in hypnotic states, and this difference was...