Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2003
Robin Rodd
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological,...
European Journal of Pharmacology
August 22, 2003
Linda Cleary, James R. Docherty
We have recently shown that methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), cathinone and methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA) have a cocaine-like action to potentiate the contractile actions of noradrenaline but not isoprenaline in the 1-Hz paced rat right ventricle. The purpose of this study was to directly test the actions of these compounds at the noradrenaline...
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
August 1, 2003
Brian Mcmillan, Mark Conner
163 citations
This study employed the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate the factors underlying intentions to use and use of LSD, amphetamine, cannabis, and ecstasy over 6 months in a sample of students ( N = 461). The TPB provided good predictions of both intentions (mean R 2 = .49) and behavior (mean R 2 = .45). Descriptive norms explained additional variance in intentions for all the drugs,...
Therapeutische Umschau
June 1, 2003
Franz X. Vollenweider, M. F. I. Vollenweider-Scherpenhuyzen
3 citations
MDMA ("Ecstasy") and its analogues such as MDE and MDA are amphetamine derivatives reported to produce an altered state with emotional overtones. Since more than ten years, ecstasy is after cannabis the most frequently used recreational drug by young adults, particularly in the so-called techno-scene. However, according to a recent survey there is an increasing trend for a revival of classic...
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
April 1, 2003
Kelley A. Raab
3 citations
The article explores the relationship between mysticism and creativity from a psychoanalytic perspective. First, it first surveys prominent psychoanalytic perspectives on mysticism and creativity, situating British psychoanalyst Marion Milner among them. Milner suggests that the same psychological processes are involved in both creative expression and mystical experiences. A state of paradox,...
Psychologie clinique et projective
March 1, 2003
Isabelle Orgiazzi Billon-Galland
2 citations
Ce travail interroge l’énigme du religieux et de la croyance autour de la rencontre singulière de dix moniales contemplatives, auxquelles ont été proposés un entretien semi-directif approfondi et les tests Rorschach et TAT. Freud a interprété la religion comme étant une illusion pleine d’avenir bien que dénuée de raison – Credo quia absurdum –, gouvernée par le principe de plaisir et...
Psychopharmacology
December 1, 2002
Jordi Riba, Antoni Rodrı́guez-fornells, Manel J. Barbanoj
71 citations
RationaleAyahuasca, a South American psychotropic plant tea, combines the psychedelic agent and 5-HT(2A/2C) agonist N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) with beta-carboline alkaloids showing monoamine oxidase-inhibiting properties. Current human research with psychedelics and entactogens has explored the possibility that drugs displaying agonist activity at the 5-HT(2A/2C) sites temporally disrupt...
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
September 2002
Thomas E Freese, Karen Miotto, Cathy J Reback
Ecstasy (MDMA), gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), ketamine, and methamphetamine are 4 examples of club drugs that are increasing in popularity. Although the pharmacological classifications of these drugs vary, MDMA has structural similarities to both amphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. Ketamine and GHB are anesthetic agents and methamphetamine is a long-acting psychostimulant. Medical visits...
Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior
May 2002
Richard A Glennon, Richard Young, Jagadeesh B Rangisetty
This investigation is based on the premise that conformational restriction of abused phenylalkylamines in a tetrahydroisoquinoline conformation alters their pharmacology in such a manner that their original action is lost and that a new action emerges. TDIQ or 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-1,3-dioxolo[4,5-g]isoquinoline, is a conformationally constrained phenylalkylamine that serves as a discriminative...
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions
April 18, 2002
Moshe Sluhovsky
Abstract Possession by either divine or demonic spirits is a familiar form of self-transformation. Together with devotional ecstasy, shamanism, trance, and voodoo and Zar ceremonies, possession is included by ethnopsychologists and anthropologists in the large variety of altered states of consciousness, numerous mental states that are “indigenously understood in terms of the influence of an...