Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
June 1, 2009
Miyuki Sugiura, Masataka Hirosawa, Sumio Tanaka et al.
Aims: The Cambridge Depersonalization Scale (CDS) is an instrument that has obtained reliability and validity in some countries for use in detecting depersonalization disorder under clinical conditions, but not yet in Japan under non‐psychiatric conditions. The purposes of this study were to develop a Japanese version of the CDS (J‐CDS) and to examine its reliability and validity as an...
Anthropology of Consciousness
May 1, 2008
Zeljko Jokic
ABSTRACTThe main aim of shamanic initiation among the Yanomami people of the Upper Orinoco River region in Venezuela is the metamorphosis of the human body into a cosmic body, or what I term “corporeal cosmogenesis.” During the initiatory ordeal, the neophyte undergoes an intense experience of death through dismemberment by the spirits and subsequent rebirth, thus overcoming the human condition...
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
May 1, 2008
Self-transcendence is both a developmental point and an innate coping resource that allows one to overcome one's own ego concerns in a search for new perspectives and meaning. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in self-transcendence between hospice and oncology nurses and identify relationships between self-transcendence and the three aspects of burnout syndrome: emotional...
Addiction
May 1, 2007
Sundeep Singh
52 citations
Salvia divinorum is a non-water-soluble hallucinogen that is becoming increasingly popular among adolescents. Salvia is a highly selective full agonist of primate and cloned human cerebral kappa-opioid receptors, although its psychotomimetic effects are similar to serotonergic agonists and NMDA glutamate antagonists. Salvia has been associated with depersonalization, laughter, feelings of...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
2007
Christian H Röder, Matthias Michal, G Overbeck et al.
Depersonalization (DP) is characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of detachment from one's self with reduced pain perception being a common feature. Alterations in the body schema similar to the cortico-limbic disconnection syndrome of pain asymbolia are suggested to be responsible for DP. In this study we used hypnosis to induce DP in healthy subjects and to examine neural patterns...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
June 2, 2006
Bruce Greyson
91 citations
Abstract. Some individuals when they come close to death report having experiences that they interpret as spiritual or religious. These so‐called near‐death experiences (NDEs) often include a sense of separation from the physical body and encounters with religious figures and a mystical or divine presence. They share with mystical experiences a sense of cosmic unity or oneness, transcendence of...
Feeling Nureal
April 20, 2006
Daphne Simeon, Jeffrey Abugel
Abstract The idea that reality is subjective, constructed from our own perceptions, is quite an ancient concept. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world,” said the Buddha. Depersonalization, a serious disruption in a person’s thoughts or sensations about their individual self, understandably alters their entire world. A person may...
Feeling Nureal
April 20, 2006
Daphne Simeon, Jeffrey Abugel
Abstract The human brain, the only organ capable of studying itself, has in the last century turned its attention toward the mysterious phenomenon of depersonalization, examining it from many perspectives. Depersonalization disorder (DPD) remains one of the most frequently misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed conditions in modern psychiatry. Why? Likely for several reasons. DPD is often accompanied...
Psyke & Logos
December 31, 2005
Christian Warnke Dalgas
Artiklen undersøger det spirituelle fænomen egodød som en mulig udviklingsvej i det voksne liv. Det teoretiske hovedafsæt er A. H. Almaas’ selvpsykologisk inspirerede forståelse af egodød som en gradvis proces bestående af en afvikling af personlighedens tendens til at identificerer sig med selvbilleder kombineret med en generobring af den enhed med væren, som alle, ifølge Almaas, oplever som...
Discourse
December 1, 2005
Richard Doyle
7 citations
Twenty minutes in, like clockwork, the visions begin. They are strong but I was expecting them this time. Norma, the vegetalista who so astonished me with her care, skill and knowledge during my first ceremony two nights prior, had packed a big bowl with a knot of the local Nicotina Rustica and had blown curling, whistling smoke over a plastic liter bottle filled with an opaque orangish liquid...