L'Encephale
December 2018
D Pringuey
In his work « Phenomenology of Psychosis » Arthur Tatossian tends to report the basal alteration of patients to a constrained phenomenological reduction and deducts the drive of daily life as a sensitive point of the schizophrenic experience, vulnerability and mark of his destiny. This perspective reveals the challenge of the dynamics of human identity. Going beyond the spatial figure of a...
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual
November 15, 2018
Colleen Shantz
Ritual conveys rich information, a significant portion of which remains effective even when not consciously perceived. Likewise, many of the effects of ritual exceed their articulation as doctrine or explicit concepts. Noteworthy among these effects are the changes in consciousness characterized as religious ecstasy. The literary evidence for Christian origins—from the Christ assembly in...
Neuropharmacology
November 2018
David J Heal, Jane Gosden, Sharon L. Smith
Psychedelics comprise drugs come from various pharmacological classes including 5-HT2A agonists, indirect 5-HT agonists, e.g., MDMA, NMDA antagonists and κ-opioid receptor agonists. There is resurgence in developing psychedelics to treat psychiatric disorders with high unmet clinical need. Many, but not all, psychedelics are schedule 1 controlled drugs (CDs), i.e., no approved medical use. For...
Neuropharmacology
November 2018
Edward M. Sellers, Myroslava K. Romach, Deborah B. Leiderman
Scientific curiosity and fascination have played a key role in human research with psychedelics along with the hope that perceptual alterations and heightened insight could benefit well-being and play a role in the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders. These motivations need to be tempered by a realistic assessment of the hurdles to be cleared for therapeutic use. Development of a...
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
November 1, 2018
Mami Nakamura, Kaori Shintani-Ishida, Hiroshi Ikegaya
Recreational drugs such as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and cocaine induce hyperthermia, which is affected by ambient temperature. 2-(4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine (25B-NBOMe), a selective agonist of 5-HT2A receptor used as a recreational drug, reportedly induces hyperthermia. This study aimed to verify whether 25B-NBOMe induces ambient temperature-dependent...
Routledge eBooks
October 24, 2018
John H. Muirhead
Cambridge University had the honour of being the first to welcome the new thought. Between Descartes and the Cambridge writers there was a certain identity of aim in that both sought for a basis in reason for man’s moral and religious experience. Though it is a mistake to represent mystic ecstasy as the centre of its teaching, it is true that the main interest of the school was religious. Its...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
October 5, 2018
Elizabeth M. Nielson, Jeffrey Guss
104 citations
Clinical research on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is rapidly advancing in the USA, with two drugs, psilocybin and MDMA, progressing through a structure of FDA-approved trials on a trajectory toward Drug Enforcement Agency rescheduling for therapeutic use. Researcher’s and clinician’s personal use of psychedelics was cited as a potential confound in psychedelic research studies conducted...
Routledge eBooks
October 3, 2018
Milad Milani
1 citation
Gnosis in the sense of ma&s;rifa , the soul&s;s experience of the divine that is related to what is known as "mystical experience," is directly relevant to classic Sufism. The special knowledge that is the product of mystical experience can be agreed to account for gnosis in classic Sufism, this being a knowledge that is available to all who seek a personal and direct knowledge of God. The term...
Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology
October 1, 2018
C. Andrade
K anesthesia was introduced about half a century ago. In recent decades, this drug, in subanesthetic doses, has also demonstrated efficacy for off-label indications including treating acute and chronic pain, treating agitation, treating depression, and inducing sedation. Thus, there are studies of subanesthetic dosing with ketamine for treating pain in emergency medicine settings, treating...
Cartoon and Animation Studies
September 30, 2018
Joohyun Kim
본 연구는 대중 친화적인 미야자키 하야오(宮崎駿)의 〈이웃집 토토로〉(1988)의 분석을 통해 주인공 토토로 캐릭터의 정체성에 새로운 시각을 제시하는 연구다. 이것은 기존의 정령인 오바케로서 토토로의 정체성에 대한 다양한 의심에서 출발하였고 본고는 이를 바탕으로 논의를 이끌게 되었다. 첫 번째 의심은 정령으로서 토토로의 능력에 대한 의심이며 두 번째 의심은 마을의 수호 정령으로서 토토로의 행위-태도에 대한 의심이고 마지막은 오바케 토토로와 작품의 특성과 수용 관계 안에서 일반적으로 통용되는 방식에 대한 문제를 제기하면서 본논의를 진행 시켰다.BR 위의 연구를 위해 작중 토토로의 샤먼적 행위가 중심이 되는 이야기 전개와 이미지를 주요 근거로 삼고 위에서 제기된 의심들과 문제의 답을 일본의 샤먼적 특징...