Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
September 21, 2020
Monnica T. Williams, Sara Reed, Jamilah R. George
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Abstract Psychedelic medicine is an emerging field of research and practice that examines the psychotherapeutic effects of substances classified as hallucinogens on the human mind, body, and spirit. Current research explores the safety and efficacy of these substances for mental health disorders including anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although current studies...
Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna
September 17, 2020
Karol Polcyn
Although phenomenal consciousness resists explanation in physical terms, it remains an open question whether or not consciousness is an intrinsically physical phenomenon since it remains an open question whether or not conscious states are identical with physical states. This question is one of the key issues of debate in contemporary philosophy of mind. Here I survey some of the key arguments...
Journal of pediatric psychology
September 14, 2020
Subhadra Evans, Sampada Bhide, J. Quek et al.
OBJECTIVE Mindfulness is defined as paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally and these behaviors can be applied to parenting. Thus far, it is not understood whether mindful parenting (MP) differs in parents of children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and how MP relates to other parenting practices and...
[i2]: Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio
September 13, 2020
Manuel Antonio Báez
Through the aid of ever advancing technology, the analysis of complex phenomena offers us more comprehensive insights regarding the intricate inner workings of Nature’s dynamic processes. Through such digital simulations (i.e., of fluid, aero, neuro and vibratory dynamics), the operations and flow of energy are revealed as highly patterned process-structures of activity. These vivid...
September 8, 2020
T. Sweeney
ABSTRACT In this essay, I examine Anselm’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ as rhetorical prayers. I consider the basic structure of prayer as address to the Divine. For Anselm, this address is rhetorically structured towards persuading God to reveal himself by the three Aristotelian means of persuasion: character, affect, and argument. Compassion is the phenomenological showing of God as the...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
September 3, 2020
Gianfranco Pellegrino, Mirko Daniel Garasic
Artificial intelligences and robots increasingly mimic human mental powers and intelligent behaviour. However, many authors claim that ascribing human mental powers to them is both conceptually mistaken and morally dangerous. This article defends the view that artificial intelligences can have human-like mental powers, by claiming that both human and artificial minds can be seen as extended...
Health Psychology
September 1, 2020
Michael W Otto, Michael J Zvolensky, David Rosenfield et al.
Low income and low educational attainment are among the strongest predictors of both smoking prevalence and lapse (i.e., return) to smoking after cessation attempts. Treatment refinement is limited by inadequate knowledge of the specific lapse- or relapse-relevant vulnerabilities characteristic of populations that should be the target of treatment. In the context of a randomized clinical trial...
September 1, 2020
E. Bruce Goldstein
An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain—often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of...
September 1, 2020
Duo-Yi Fei
In the interpretation of the body in the 20th century, philosophy placed less emphasis than before on its natural composition and sought to integrate value judgements from different perspectives. The philosophy of the body addresses the deepest essential problems of human society and culture, it generates a uniquely detailed analysis of human nature and its various roles and performances in...
ACT in Steps
September 1, 2020
Michael P. Twohig, Michael Levin, Clarissa W. Ong
This chapter opens with teaching therapists how to lead a brief mindfulness exercise at the start of therapy sessions to increase clients’ present-moment awareness. The chapter describes the NOTE acronym as a means to help clients remember the skills they have learned up to this point: to notice what is happening, observe thoughts and feelings for what they are, turn toward their values, and...