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New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming October 8, 2020 Bruce M. Knauft
The thesis of my paper – evolving out the abstract submitted months ago – is that our lingering ethnocentric reification of “dreaming” as not just distinct from but the opposite of “waking” – dream consciousness versus waking consciousness – elides and occludes much power and value in and across mental states that include dreaming. There is arguably a strong connection if not continuum across...
October 8, 2020 Alfonso Matas 1 citation
This dissertation is an exploration of the Santo Daime Church in Miami, focusing on the challenges of balancing institutional stability with continual growth and innovation. Santo Daime—whose central ritual entails the consumption of the mind-altering ayahuasca brew—is a new religious movement that amalgamates indigenous Amazonian, Afro-Brazilian, and popular Catholic traditions. Between June...
Journal of Psychopharmacology October 8, 2020 Yasmin Schmid, Peter Gasser, Peter Oehen et al. 82 citations
Background: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) were used in psychotherapy in the 1960s–1980s, and are currently being re-investigated as treatments for several psychiatric disorders. In Switzerland, limited medical use of these substances is possible in patients not responding to other treatments (compassionate use). Methods: This study aimed to...
October 7, 2020 Josie E Malinowski
Sci-fi has had a lot to say about dreaming over the years: film director Christopher Nolan, fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, anime director Satoshi Kon, and many others have explored the weird and wonderful world of dreams. Inception begins with the premise that it’s possible to enter someone’s dream and extract information from their mind. In the first experiment of its kind, a research team led...
Frontiers in Pharmacology October 7, 2020 Ilana Berlowitz, Ernesto García Torres, Heinrich Walt et al. 43 citations
Introduction Harmful usage of tobacco is a public health problem of global concern and, in many countries, the main risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Yet, in the Peruvian Amazon, the geographical region believed to be tobacco’s historical birthplace, this plant is associated with a strikingly different usage and repute: Tobacco (especially Nicotiana rustica L.) in this area is...
Paideusis October 6, 2020 Thomas Falkenberg
Starting with the argument that what we attend to is important for how we act in and on the world – and, thus, our moral living – the article conceptualizes teaching as contemplative practice, arguing that attending pre-conceptually and non-judgmentally to our inner life as teachers as we teach moment-by-moment will give us the basis upon which we can engage developmentally in teaching as a...
October 2, 2020 R. Kulka, Iris Gavrieli-Rahabi, Karina Goldberg
ABSTRACT Within the vibrant web of general Israeli psychoanalysis, the Israeli community of self psychology, grounded within Kohutian foundations, has developed an ethical-theoretical shift that can be termed selfobject psychology, a sort of bold proposal to spiritual psychoanalysis. This development enhances the Kohutian revolution of transforming psychoanalysis from the empirical sphere of...
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association October 2020 Peter Goldberg
A psychosomatic model of dissociation is proposed that addresses the ever adjusting mind-body relation-the constant titration of the quality and degree of the psyche's embeddedness in the sensorial and temporal life of the body. The model highlights the function of hypnoid mechanisms (autohypnosis, distraction, somatic autostimulation) and of altered states of consciousness in facilitating and...
Neuropsychopharmacology October 1, 2020 Kirsten C. S. Adam, Manoj K. Doss, Elisa Pabon et al. 2 citations
With the increasing prevalence of legal cannabis use and availability, there is an urgent need to identify cognitive impairments related to its use. It is widely believed that cannabis, or its main psychoactive component Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), impairs working memory, i.e., the ability to temporarily hold information in mind. However, our review of the literature yielded surprisingly...
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies October 1, 2020 Charles Goodman 3 citations
Recent developments in artificial intelligence and the nascent scientific literature on 'plant learning' pose serious challenges to Buddhist philosophy of mind and to Buddhist practical ethics. These challenges are of two general types. First, the empirical results threaten to extend the reach of mind more broadly than premodern South Asian and Tibetan Buddhists were willing to allow, calling...