Frontiers in Psychology
September 27, 2018
Matthew John Mellor
17 citations
With the publication of Wilfred Bion's text 'Learning from Experience,' psychoanalysis was afforded a new schema for understanding the processes and implications involved in an infant's contact with their caregivers. As a result, our conception of some of the most fundamental phenomena of psychic life was significantly enriched. By proposing his theory of alpha-functioning, Bion mapped out how...
Вестник Самарского университета. История, педагогика, филология
September 25, 2018
Elena Aleksandrovna Safron, M. V. Lukashеvich
The article studies the role of the oneirosphere in the stories written by M. Frei by means of motive analysis, mythological and metaphysical method (the term by A. Beguin). The relevance of the topic is due to the low popularity of both M. Freis creativity, and the genre of fantasy itself among contemporary researchers. The novelty of the approach of M. Freis image of the oneirosphere is that...
Вестник Самарского университета. История, педагогика, филология
September 25, 2018
O. V. Ponomareva, N. A. Ilyukhina
The article presents, on the material of artistic texts, linguistic ways of reflecting the inner world of a person in a state of narcotic intoxication and his perception of the surrounding reality with a view to evaluating these methods from the point of view of specifics compared to methods of reflecting different types of internal state of a person which is normal in the Russian linguistic...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
September 24, 2018
Kay Ryan
As we age or become terminally ill, we are confronted by our mortality. Being confronted by our own or another’s death can be a time of accelerated and profound growth and development. Using examples from research and personal experience working in a hospice, this article explores challenges facing our own dying as well as that of clients and family members. It discusses the relevance and...
Psychiatric News
September 21, 2018
Lynne Lamberg
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Clinical and Research NewsFull AccessSleep Specialists Assess Treatments for Nightmares in AdultsLynne LambergLynne LambergPublished Online:21 Sep 2018https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2018.8b24AbstractAn American Academy of Sleep Medicine panel evaluates behavioral, psychological, and pharmacologic options for treating nightmares in...
Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder
September 19, 2018
Elena Antelmi, Giuseppe Plazzi
The simultaneous occurrence of behavioral, neurophysiological, and autonomic descriptors conventionally defines each physiologic state of being. When functional or anatomical abnormalities involve the structures of the network orchestrating the synchronization of these descriptors, features of a state of being are erroneously recruited into an ongoing state, generating aberrant conditions....
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
September 19, 2018
Peter Fazekas, Georgina Nemeth
This paper approaches the debate whether perceptual consciousness requires cognitive access from the perspective of dream studies, and investigates what kind of findings could support the opposing views of this debate. Two kinds of arguments are discussed, one that claims that the hypoactivity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in rapid eye movement sleep is directly relevant, and another...
Journal of Neuroscience
September 10, 2018
Francesca Siclari, Giulio Bernardi, Jacinthe Cataldi et al.
148 citations
Dreaming can occur in both rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep. We recently showed that in both REM and NREM sleep, dreaming is associated with local decreases in slow wave activity (SWA) in posterior brain regions. To expand these findings, here we asked how specific features of slow waves and spindles, the hallmarks of NREM sleep, relate to dream experiences. Fourteen healthy...
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
September 5, 2018
Ruth Finnegan
Forms of “altered” consciousness are common in human life yet at the same time (apart from dreams) seldom investigated in depth by anthropologists. The main areas where such states of consciousness have been found, and up to a point studied, are dreaming, including prophetic and creative dreams; sensations of contact of various kinds with and from the dead; the experience of music, poetry and...
September 4, 2018
Marc Wittmann
What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long been...