Leonardo Christov-Moore, Félix Schoeller, Mathilda Von Guttenberg et al.
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Understanding and facilitating access to non-ordinary experiences that can promote mental health and wellbeing is a growing focus of clinical and basic research. . Previous work has revealed the mood-augmenting, belief-altering, and self-transcendent effects of aesthetic-chills-inducing audiovisual stimulation, as a putative “technodelic.” The current study investigated how a guided loving...
Jeremy Cooper
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Presentations of existential anxiety within depersonalization-derealization disorder both present as symptoms to be reduced and highlight a particular trend for understanding self-referential processes. In offering a possible neurophenomenological conceptualization of how oneself attempts to understand oneself through the course of experiencing existential anxiety, a lens through Spinoza’s...
Lara Maister, Anna Ciaunica
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Depersonalization is a condition that makes people feel detached from one’s self, body and others. The representation of one’s own face is a salient bodily aspect of self-awareness and identity, and empirical evidence suggests that individuals with depersonalization disorder experience disrupted perception of their faces when viewing themselves in photographs or in the mirror, which has been...
Veronika Alekseeva, Anna Ciaunica
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From the moment we are born, and even before, in the womb, and until our last breath, our bodies move all the time. Adaptive behaviors necessarily depend not only on successful integration of multisensory bodily signals but also on how we move our body in the world. This paper considers the notion of embodied selfhood through the perspective of dynamic and rhythmic coupling between bodily...
Amber Bunting (18023278)
The minimal self has been defined as the pre-reflective sense of being a subject of experience (Gallagher, 2000). This thesis aimed to lay out a theoretical foundation which enables the progression of minimal self studies by identifying, organising, and synthesising existing and potential theoretical frameworks. In the first chapter, a scoping review identified mechanistic theories of minimal...
Zümrüt Duygu Sen, Nitin Sharma, Lena Vera Danyeli et al.
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Along with its rapid therapeutic benefits, ketamine induces transient experience of dissociation during administration. Given the suggested association between ketamine-induced dissociation and treatment response, understanding the neural correlates of dissociation would help to elucidate its therapeutic mechanism. The posteromedial cortex (PMC) has been reported to play a vital role in the...