Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1985
R J Pekala, C F Wenger, R L Levine
State manifestations of the trait of absorption--a trait associated with differential responsivity to hypnosis, meditation, marijuana intoxification, and electromyograph (EMG) biofeedback--were assessed to determine (a) if absorption correlates with various (sub)dimensions of phenomenological experience, and (b) if individuals of differing absorption ability experience different states of...
September 1, 1984
K. Gene Hansen, T. Malloy, O. Gordon et al.
To assess the effects of nitrous oxide on mechanized cognitive sets, sixty-four dental patients were randomly divided into four groups. Two control groups verified the procedure's ability to establish and demonstrate a mechanized cognitive set. The other two groups, the Oxygen Group and the Nitrous Oxide Group, demonstrated that nitrous oxide led to an increased probability of breaking...
Journal of Religion and Health
March 1, 1984
J R Haule
"Soul-making" (cf. Jung and Hillman) is the process of integrating spiritual and bodily imagery into an intimated wholeness transcending conscious comprehension. Pierre Janet's case of the psychotic mystic, Madeleine, reveals that the patient had been "making" her own-soul even though his theory had no provision for soul. Janet's soul-stripping theory is contrasted with a soul-making approach,...
Medical Anthropology
1984
Marlene Dobkin De Rios
15 citations
This article examines the vidente, or seer phenomenon in the Peruvian Amazon city of Pucallpa, Peru, where fieldwork was conducted in 1977 and 1979. With the discovery of natural opiate-like substances in the body, called endorphins, researchers in the brain sciences were intrigued by man's ability to create his own opiate-like response to pain, ecstacy and stress. Paranormal phenomena, often...
American Ethnologist
August 1, 1983
Richard Noll
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state‐specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in the anthropological literature of the “schizophrenia metaphor” of shamanism and its altered states is untenable. A current psychiatric diagnostic manual is utilized to show that significant...
Psychiatry
November 1, 1982
Glen O. Gabbard, Stuart W. Twemlow, Fowler C. Jones
Considerable confusion exists in the psychiatric literature concerned with states of consciousness in which there is an altered perception of the mind/body relationship; related but different terms are often used interchangeably, with a lack of definitional rigor. The purpose of this paper is to bring clarity to this group of related phenomena by differentiating out-of-body experience (OBE)...
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
September 1, 1982
R Broughton
The relevance of sleep/waking rhythms to issues of human consciousness is reviewed from data in the literature and from personal studies. Consciousness is often considered to be markedly attenuated or absent in sleep. There is, however, much evidence for a rich subjective experience during sleep, much of which is not recalled later. This implies that William James' "stream of consciousness'...
Human Toxicology
July 1982
D J Roberts
1 The nature of an aerosol and the techniques that have been used to obtain altered states of consciousness by deliberately inhaling the contents are described. 2 The development of the phenomenon, first in the USA, and subsequently in the UK is traced. 3 The consultation between Government Departments and the British Aerosol Manufacturers Association (BAMA) is outlined, and the decisions...
Religion
July 1, 1982
Richard A. Hutch
9 citations
Researchers in psychology of religion in America and Britain have inherited the theoretical and research traditions established by W. James, S. Freud and J. Dittes. New nomothetic or theoretical frameworks have been called for in order to organize a plethora of idiographic data. A response to the call has been slow, but Paul Pruyser designated at least six areas in which the development of...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
1982
T Nagakawa, Y Ikemi
In the Western countries, dynamically oriented psychoanalysis, behaviour modification based on learning principles and existential, humanistic psychology have been widely used as treatment modalities for neuroses and psychosomatic disorders. Autogenic therapy for relaxation and self-control has been utilized. In the Orient, Yoga, Zen, Acupuncture and Fasting Therapy have been applied to various...