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Anthropology of Consciousness June 1, 1996 John R. Baker
The Nature of Shamanism: Substance and Function of. Religious Metaphor. Michael Ripinsky‐Naxon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xi. 289 pp. $19.95 (paper). $59.50 (cloth).
Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne May 1, 1996 Allan T. Morrison, Harry T. Hunt 9 citations
AbstractThis study tests the hypothesis that questionnaire self - report measures of altered state experience are, by their very nature, affected by demand features (Orne, 1970), while interview self - report measures of experience are more resistant to these vulnerabilities. It was specifically hypothesized that an interview measure would distinguish the experiences of actual meditators...
Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1996 Franco Fabbro, Andrea Clarici, Amir Muzur et al.
The modifications of human vocal fundamental frequency (fa) were studied in six emotional imitations of a sequence during normal and hypnotic conditions. In hypnosis the fundamental frequency was significantly lower than in the normal condition; in particular, in this altered state of consciousness two emotional imitations (angry and crying conditions) were significantly different with respect...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal April 1, 1996 Jeremy Dronfield 38 citations
This article examines the significance of the passage in Irish passage-tombs. An association between passages and concentric motifs in the engraved parietal art is analyzed, and interpreted in terms of the ‘tunnel experience’ often associated with altered states of consciousness as a means of access between ‘real’ and supernatural worlds. In addition, the implications of the coincidence of...
American Journal of Psychotherapy April 1, 1996 Ira Brenner 19 citations
This review has focused on the characterological features of dissociative identity disorder (DID), extending the "state versus trait" debate to the realm of the dissociative disorders. A number of different theories are presented describing DID as a variant of, on a continuum with, or being comorbid with the narcissistic and the borderline personality disorders. It is then hypothesized that DID...
Psychology and Developing Societies March 1, 1996 Anand C. Paranjpe 9 citations
The intellectual tradition of India includes many psychological concepts, theories and techniques that parallel, contrast, contradict or complement Western ideas and theories. Using notions derived from the Upanishads and modern psychology, the paper discusses the nature and states of consciousness, Western metaphors and the Yogic techniques for the systematic control of mental processes to...
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 1996 Mira Zussman
Most students step into our classrooms completely innocent of the notion of consciousness, consciousness studies, or the possibility of altering states of consciousness. Our task is to build our courses to meet these students needs at the undergraduate level, and to bring them slowly—and with care—into the realm of consciousness studies. Protection of human subjects surely extends to our...
Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review March 1, 1996 Daniel Halperin 11 citations
An argument is made for the unthreading of two separate, if commonly intertwined, elements of spirit possession prac tices. The term "trance-possession" is frequently employed to designate either of these concepts, implying that trance and possession are essentially synonymous in nature. Yet the psychophysiologically altered states of consciousness known as trance constitute something...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences February 1, 1996 Noboru Hatotani 49 citations
Reviewing the development of concepts of 'atypical' psychoses in European countries and in the United States shows that there are various terminologies which are given to a group of psychoses unclassifiable within Kraepelinian dichotomy. Bouffée délirante (French school), cycloid psychoses (Leonhard, Perris), reactive psychoses (Scandinavian school) and acute schizoaffective psychoses (Kasanin)...
Contemporary Music Review 1996 Michael Tucker 2 citations
Recently there has been a strong revival of interest in the phenomenon of shamanism — the pre-Judæo-Christian, nature-based religion of ecstatic states of mind described by Mircea Eliade in Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. With its emphasis upon altered consciousness, shamanism offers archetypal visionary insight concerning the nature of the psyche. It has come to be seen to have much...