Perspectives in biology and medicine
June 1, 1991
Robert F. Ulrich, Bernard M. Patten
27 citations
THE RISE, DECLINE, AND FALL OF LSD ROBERT F. ULRICH and BERNARD M. PATTEN* The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is ... a principal appetite of the soul. When, for whatever reason, men and women fail to transcend themselves by means of worship, good worh and spiritual exercises, they are apt to resort to religion's chemical surrogates.—Aldous Huxley. [1] On April 16, 1943, a fascinating...
Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie
May 1, 1991
Bernhard Küchenhoff
In this casuistic contribution a female patient is discussed for whom an adaequate psychopathological and diagnostic assessment is very difficult to obtain. With the help of Freud's psychoanalysis, Janzarik's Strukturdynamik and the research into altered states of consciousness by Dittrich different interpretations of the case are provided. Zusammenfassung Die Titelüberschrift stellt das Zitat...
Auslegung a Journal of Philosophy
1991
Martin J. Matuštík
1 citation
Merleau-Ponty never wrote a phenomenology of sympathy.But his use of sympathy in accounting for human relationships parallels in intent and manner his treatment of perception in the Phenomenology.}In addressing the paradox of alterity, he draws an analogy between perception and sympathy: just as perceptual consciousness founds intersubjective thematic experience, in the same way pre-personal...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 1990
John R Searle
AbstractCognitive science typically postulates unconscious mental phenomena, computational or otherwise, to explain cognitive capacities. The mental phenomena in question are supposed to be inaccessible in principle to consciousness. I try to show that this is a mistake, because all unconscious intentionality must be accessible in principle to consciousness; we have no notion of intrinsic...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
September 1, 1990
S R Wilson, R C Spencer
Following leads by Maslow (1964, 1968) and others who described peak experiences, this study was designed to learn more about the (1) subjective effects; (2) after-effects; and (3) interpretations of intense positive and negative experiences. Comparisons were made between respondents' "most positive" and "most negative" experiences and between these positive experiences and those of members of...
Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior
June 1990
C S Rebert, M J Matteucci, G T Pryor
Toluene (TOL) and dichloromethane (DCM) are widely used industrial solvents and are common components of solvent mixtures that are voluntarily inhaled to produce altered states of consciousness. In previous studies we characterized some of the acute electrophysiologic effects of these solvents. Opposite effects were noted for some measures, suggesting that they might be antagonistic when...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
May 25, 1990
Barbara G. Myerhoff
38 citations
What do we mean by transformation in consciousness? Everyday usage suggests a transformation is a major and lasting change: in structure, appearance, character or function. One becomes something else, and since we are emphasizing consciousness, we must add, one has an altered state of consciousness, a new perception of oneself or one's socio/physical world, a conversion in awareness, belief,...
British Journal of Psychotherapy
September 1, 1989
Hazel Guest
15 citations
ABSTRACT. This paper discusses some of the concepts in the theory and practice of transpersonal psychology and the sources from which they have been derived. The basic concept of the ‘self as distinct from the‘ego’is characteristic of most Eastern philosophies. The use of imagery as a means of contacting unconscious material can be traced back through the esoteric practices of both West and...
International Journal of Neuroscience
July 1989
C H Bick
In 1985 I first reported my observations of stimuli-synchronized changes of EEG spectra occurring in 25 hypnotized patients. Electroencephalographic leads recorded separately for the left and right brain showed a switch of electrical activities from the left to the right hemisphere in right-handed persons. In the following study we changed the experimental conditions, using an EEG brain mapping...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1, 1989
H Hunt
George Gillespie's valuable observations on light and lattice imageries are played in the context of current research and theory on cognitive imagery (Kosslyn, Pylyshyn), ordinary and lucid dreaming, representational geometric imagery in scientific thought, the author's previous writings on altered states of consciousness, and Gibson's views on perception and imagery. Gillespie's reports show...