Journal of Near-Death Studies
1997
Karl Jansen
3 citations
The commentators on my paper raised several interesting is sues. Set and setting do influence drug effects, but they also influence near death experiences (NDEs). Some NDEs are very anxiety-generating, just like some ketamine experiences, though frightening NDEs have been ignored by most researchers. High frequency, compulsive ketamine use is rare. While dimethyltryptamine (DMT) may induce...
Kybernetes
October 1, 1996
C. Musès
2 citations
Presents consciousness as not only cognitive awareness in sensory, imaginational, remembered and dream contexts, but also as the awareness in all of us that is not necessarily accessed by or immediately accessible only to the conscious mind. Sees consciousness, because of its primal and pervasive nature, as the Holy Grail of the scientific quest. Provides examples of how it can be misunderstood...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 13, 1996
Alberto Melucci
Nomads of the present Ever since its advent, the modern world has offered individual action an open field of possibility. The myths of progress and liberty have fed the Promethean dream of freeing mankind from natural constraints, by submitting nature to the dominion of technological power. Moreover, the promise of freedom has been extended to regard also the life of the individual, for whom it...
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
June 1, 1996
Paul E. Emery
9 citations
The intrapsychic processes underlying the phenomenology of PTSD symptoms appear to derive their fate from the states of consciousness at the time of traumatic experiences. The operative mechanisms of consciousness-condensation, avoidance of censorship, representability, and secondary revision-are the elements of trauma work as they are of dream work. These mechanisms establish an ever-present...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
April 1, 1996
Ira Brenner
19 citations
This review has focused on the characterological features of dissociative identity disorder (DID), extending the "state versus trait" debate to the realm of the dissociative disorders. A number of different theories are presented describing DID as a variant of, on a continuum with, or being comorbid with the narcissistic and the borderline personality disorders. It is then hypothesized that DID...
Der Anaesthesist
February 1996
H Käsmacher, M Petermeyer, C Decker
Since the introduction of propofol into clinical practice, dreaming during general anaesthesia has been frequently reported with this drug. We investigated the incidence and character of these dreams with regard to distinction from intraoperative awareness and in comparison with habitual dreams or dreams during general anaesthesia with enflurane. A total of 230 patients (ASA I-II) undergoing...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1996
Laura Stark, Irma-Riitta Järvinen, Senni Timonen et al.
3 citations
In the wake of the collapse of Communism, religious and ethnic revivalism have emerged as major elements of social change in the former Soviet Union, playing themselves out on national, regional and community levels. This chapter focuses on community, and examines the dialectic between (i) religious values and (ii) the construction of a ‘moral community’, which is in turn a basis for ethnic...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
1996
Aado Lintrop
Belief in the hereditary transmission of shaman's gift is common to all Siberian shamanism. One can find corresponding motifs in Nganasan shamanism as well as in Tuvinian one. Often there is impossible to become a shaman without having shamans-ancestors in family. Sometimes they are namely the spirits of shamans-ancestors, who at first reveal themselves to the devotee and force him to...
Sociétés & Représentations
November 1, 1995
Mikhaïl Yampolsky
La mescaline, de même que d'autres drogues, change la voie de la perception visuelle en déplaçant la « lecture » de la figure vers le fond et en rendant les graphes linéaires. Ces modifications bouleversent la construction de l'illusion de réalité. L'auteur étudie ces métamorphoses de la perception visuelle, stimulées par les modificateurs de conscience, telles qu'elles apparaissent dans...
Brain and Cognition
August 1, 1995
Newly proposed criteria for Lewy body dementia include alterations in consciousness. Lewy body dementia is also associated with a disturbance in cholinergic transmission; neocortical cholinergic deficits in this disorder are more extensive than in Alzheimer's disease and are correlated with symptoms commonly associated with delirium, such as visual hallucinations. The traditional view that...