Cambridge University Press eBooks
March 19, 1992
Fausto Massimini, Modesto Carli, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1 citation
Unlike somatic medicine, psychology has failed to develop an adequate model of the healthy individual and particularly of the range of variations of normal experience in daily life. Consequently, psychiatry lacks what physiology contributes to pathology in medical sciences. The task of studying normal consciousness should be the concern of psychology, so that a theoretical discipline could...
European Journal of Pharmacology
March 3, 1992
Isabelle M Maisonneuve, Stanley D Glick
59 citations
To investigate a possible basis for the proposed anti-addictive property of ibogaine, the effects of an ibogaine (40 mg/kg i.p.) pretreatment on in vivo neurochemical and motor effects induced by cocaine (20 mg/kg i.p.) were studied. Ibogaine, administered 19 h earlier, potentiated the increase in extracellular dopamine levels in striatum and nucleus accumbens as well as the stimulated motor...
Behavioural Pharmacology
February 1, 1992
Cathleen S. Dohrn, J.L. Lichtor, R.S. Finn et al.
The effects of nitrous oxide at subanesthetic doses (0%, 10%, 20%, and 40% in oxygen) on mood and psychomotor performance were determined in a group of 12 healthy volunteers (six males and six females). A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, crossover trial of five experimental sessions was used. Effects were measured before, during and after a 30-min inhalation period of the agent,...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
October 1, 1991
A. C. Andrade, C. Andrade
In our personal lives, we are often consulted by relatives, friends and non-mental health professional colleagues for problems of a situational nature, or problems of living, which rarely warrant a psychiatric diagnosis. We cannot undertake formal psychotherapy in this population, nor are drugs or conventional behariour therapy procedures (such as Jacobson's progressive relaxation) quite...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
October 1, 1991
Owen Lewis, J O'Brien
7 citations
Although various authors have discussed the technical modification required for dream interpretation with children, the basic conceptualization of the psychotherapeutic use of the dream with children has remained virtually identical to that with adult analysands. Examining various sources including formal studies on the nature of children's dreams, clinical case reports and series, and...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
1991
C. Andrade, A. C. Andrade
We report two cases whose psychiatric dysfunction failed to respond to pharmaco-therapy, but which dramatically 'melted' with the practice of transcendental meditation (TM). Case 1: R., a 55 year old businessman, was diagnosed as Panic Disorder (severe) with Agoraphobia (mild) (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). Over 3 years of illness, he had received alprazolam (2 mg/day), lorazepam (6...
1991
Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
Part 1 The departing ground: a fundamental circularity - in the mind of the reflective scientist - an already-given condition, what is cognitive science?, cognitive science within the circle, the theme of this book what do we mean "Human Experience"? - science and the phenomenological tradition, the breakdown of phenomenology, a non-western philosophical tradition, examining experience with a...
Applied Psychology
July 1, 1990
M. M. Delmonte
10 citations
Cet article commence par analyser l'usage de la méditation comme technique thérapeutique dans le cadre des modèles systémiques, phénoménologiques, psychodynamiques et comportementaux. Puis, la méditation est examinée du point de vue de Kelly (1955): les “construits” personnels constituent une méta‐théorie qui est utilisée pour fonder et développer plusieurs des dimensions des modèles mentionnés...
Psychiatry
May 1990
R J Castillo
From a review of the literature on meditation and depersonalization and interviews conducted with six meditators, this study concludes that: 1) meditation can cause depersonalization and derealization; 2) the meanings in the mind of the meditator regarding the experience of depersonalization will determine to a great extent whether anxiety is present as part of the experience; 3) there need not...
Australian Dental Journal
April 1, 1990
Robin M. Shaw, D. M. Dettmar
5 citations
This study was concerned with the practical value of relaxation training in helping an individual reduce anxiety and its physical manifestations. Twenty-five subjects learned and practised transcendental meditation for a period of three months. Subjects were clinically examined before and after meditation training, and a craniomandibular index (CMI) was used to objectively assess criteria...