BMJ
November 24, 2005
Samson S. Y. Wong, Kwok‐Yung Yuen
2 citations
Abstract 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (acronymized as 5-MeO-DMT) is sui generis among the numerous naturally-occurring psychoactive substances due to its unparalleled ego-dissolving effects which can culminate in a state of nondual consciousness (which is phenomenologically similar to transformative peak experiences described in various ancient contemplative traditions, e.g., Advaita...
Current Psychiatry Reports
June 1, 2005
Christine Mohr, Olaf Blanke
Autoscopic phenomena (AP) are rare, illusory visual experiences during which the subject has the impression of seeing a second own body in extrapersonal space. AP consist of out-of-body experience, autoscopic hallucination, and heautoscopy. Recent neurologic reports support the role of multisensory integration deficits of body-related information and vestibular dysfunctions in AP at the...
Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
February 1, 2005
Leanne Sheen, Jenny Oates
Critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICUs) are usually sedated with drugs such as Morphine and Midazolam in order to facilitate ventilation, relieve pain and lower metabolic demands. Participants in this research were sedated to the point of 'medically induced unconsciousness' in that they were non eye opening nor responsive to verbal directives. A...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
September 2004
Marcus West
This paper describes the course of an analysis which demonstrates how borderline and narcissistic functioning can be understood in terms of a struggle with issues of identity. It shows how such functioning can come to exert a profound hold on the individual and why it seems, at times, a matter of life and death to the patient to avoid states of separation from the analyst. The paper suggests...
Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
November 1, 2001
Dietrich Lehmann, Pascal L Faber, Peter Achermann et al.
212 citations
Multichannel EEG of an advanced meditator was recorded during four different, repeated meditations. Locations of intracerebral source gravity centers as well as Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA) functional images of the EEG 'gamma' (35-44 Hz) frequency band activity differed significantly between meditations. Thus, during volitionally self-initiated, altered states of...
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
April 1, 2000
Ehud Koch
7 citations
The experience of dread, an extreme form of fear that is induced by terror and horror, is seen as manifested in the shapes of a "dreaded self" and a "dreaded state of the self." These representations reflect psychic dangers ranging from a common, feared identification to states of disconnection, desolation, ego dissolution, and nonexistence. It is suggested that life crises and traumatic...
The Lancet
February 1, 2000
Bruce Greyson
149 citations
BackgroundSome people who come close to death report having experiences in which they transcend the boundaries of the ego and the confines of time and space. Such near-death experiences (NDEs) share some features with the phenomenon of dissociation, in which a person's self identity becomes detached from bodily sensation. This study explored the frequency of dissociative symptoms in people who...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
2000
O F Kernberg
This paper carries out an analysis of the nature of mature religiosity of the basis of psychoanalytic findings and concepts, rather than attempting a philosophical and theological approach to religion. It highlights a striking correspondence between the characteristics of mature religiosity, derived from the various sources of development of the ego-ideal and the superego, and reflecting a...
American Journal of Psychiatry
December 1, 1999
R Meares
The author provides a preliminary framework for a systematic and dynamic understanding of dissociation through a consideration of the theories of Hughlings Jackson. Jackson's ideas are briefly reviewed. He saw the proper scientific investigation of mental illness as an experimental investigation of mind. Accordingly, his argument begins with this fundamental concept. His views of the brain-mind...
European Psychiatry
December 1, 1998
Euphrosyne Gouzoulis‐mayfrank, Elmar Habermeyer, L Hermle et al.
Clinical evidence suggests that hallucinogenic drug-induced altered states of consciousness (ASCs) and the incipient, acute stages of endogenous psychoses share many common phenomenological features. The aim of our study was to assess hallucinogen-like phenomena in endogenous psychotic patients using standardised methods. We examined 93 endogenous psychotic patients, 50 healthy controls and a...