1996
Valerie Cronin-Schaffnit
This thesis explores a traditional Native model of healing. This holistic approach to healing is based on Native philosophy which integrates the physical, the emotional, the mental and the spiritual aspects of being for the person to be healthy, balanced and in harmony. The healing process incorporates an experiential approach based on shamanic techniques of healing including breath work or...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues
1996
Philip M. Bromberg
25 citations
This paper reconsiders the case of Frau Emmy von N—Freud's first effort to treat hysteria—from the vantage point of hypnoid states of consciousness and the phenomenon of dissociation. It proposes that Freud, in ultimately repudiating Breuer's concept of autohypnosis and alterations in consciousness, led psychoanalysis for the next century towards a one‐sided emphasis on repression at the...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
1996
Aado Lintrop
Belief in the hereditary transmission of shaman's gift is common to all Siberian shamanism. One can find corresponding motifs in Nganasan shamanism as well as in Tuvinian one. Often there is impossible to become a shaman without having shamans-ancestors in family. Sometimes they are namely the spirits of shamans-ancestors, who at first reveal themselves to the devotee and force him to...
Anthropology of Consciousness
December 1, 1995
Wallace W. Zane
Confusion prevails in the anthropological literature concerning the nature of spirit possession belief and its effects. In large, this is due to the difficulty in differentiating between culture‐specific categories of altered states of consciousness and reconciling these to analytical categories. Theories of spirit possession tend either toward description of the culture context without...
Sociétés & Représentations
November 1, 1995
Mikhaïl Yampolsky
La mescaline, de même que d'autres drogues, change la voie de la perception visuelle en déplaçant la « lecture » de la figure vers le fond et en rendant les graphes linéaires. Ces modifications bouleversent la construction de l'illusion de réalité. L'auteur étudie ces métamorphoses de la perception visuelle, stimulées par les modificateurs de conscience, telles qu'elles apparaissent dans...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
October 1, 1995
Thomas Natsoulas
As in the preceding article of the present series, I continue to examine William James's thought in The Principles of Psychology regarding what he there called “ejective consciousness.” James held that, in certain altered states, and perhaps at other times as well, mental occurrences may take place that are not components of the individual's original stream of consciousness. Usually if not...
Neuropsychologia
September 1, 1995
J Delacour
This paper summarizes the main steps in a scientific study of consciousness. From a survey of the recent literature, it appears that: (1) there is a clear tendency to consider consciousness as a scientific object; (2) consistent subjective and objective descriptions of consciousness are possible; an intentional-modeling structure accounts for its main features; (3) from the evolutionary biology...
Brain and Cognition
August 1, 1995
Newly proposed criteria for Lewy body dementia include alterations in consciousness. Lewy body dementia is also associated with a disturbance in cholinergic transmission; neocortical cholinergic deficits in this disorder are more extensive than in Alzheimer's disease and are correlated with symptoms commonly associated with delirium, such as visual hallucinations. The traditional view that...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
June 1, 1995
Thomas Natsoulas
The present series concerning the stream of consciousness continues with two articles that examine James's conception of “ejective” consciousness in The Principles. During certain altered states, and perhaps at other times as well, mental-occurrence instances take place that are not part of the individual's original stream of consciousness. Usually, if not always, such “split-off”...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
April 1, 1995
J. D. Lewis‐williams
41 citations
The construction of archaeological arguments is a continuing source of concern. In comparatively recent years archaeological data have come to be seen as a text that can in some sense be ‘read’. Rejecting this approach in favour of arguments constructed by the intertwining of disparate strands of evidence, this article explores the possible meanings of a southern African rock art motif....