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July 20, 2017 Dusana Dorjee
The last chapter introduces a framework of contemplative science as a new discipline investigating changes in the metacognitive self-regulatory capacity (MSRC) of the mind and shifts in modes of existential awareness (MEA) resulting from meditation training. Building on this framework, it further outlines the disciplines of contemplative psychology, contemplative psychotherapy, contemplative...
July 20, 2017 Caroline Brazier
This chapter explores the importance of embodiment in the therapeutic process and its relevance to working outdoors. Drawing on the theory of focusing developed by Eugene Gendlin and on Buddhist mindfulness practice, both in the Satipatthana and in recent work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and others, this chapter offers practical guidance on grounding and body-awareness exercises and on the use of...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry July 20, 2017 Chittaranjan Andrade 179 citations
BACKGROUND: Ketamine, administered in subanesthetic doses, is an effective off-label treatment for severe and even treatment-refractory depression; however, despite dozens of studies across nearly 2 decades of research, there is no definitive guidance on matters related to core practice issues. METHODS: This article presents a qualitative review and summary about what is known about ketamine...
July 20, 2017 Antti Revonsuo 2 citations
Philosophers have tried to solve the problem of consciousness for centuries. Philosophical mind–body theories are trying to specify how consciousness and brain might be related to each other. This chapter discusses the basic nature of consciousness and the different philosophical theories about it and also discusses some questions such as: what is the fundamental nature of consciousness. what...
Oxford Scholarship Online July 20, 2017
The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant’s writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any understanding of Kant’s Critical philosophy and they bear upon contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind. Fourteen specially written essays address such questions as: What role does mental processing play in Kant’s account of intuition? In...
July 20, 2017 Dusana Dorjee
Our understanding of the effects of meditations developing existential insight is very limited. This chapter provides an in-depth examination of this type of meditation, starting with an overview of insight practice categories and conceptualizations. Neuroscientific evidence relevant to existential insight practices is discussed in four categories: attentional foundations of existential...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies July 20, 2017 Csaba Szummer, Lajos Horváth, A. Szabó et al. 16 citations
PurposeIn contemporary phenomenology, Dieter Lohmar has suggested that the new task of phenomenological research is to analyze the “alternative representational systems” of fantasy. In line with this program, we propose that psychedelic experience could also be suitable subject to this project subsumed under the wider category of fantasy activity. The aim of this paper is to show that...
Scientia et Fides July 18, 2017 Włodzisław Duch 5 citations
There is no controversy in psychology or brain sciences that brains create mind and consciousness. Doubts and opinions to the contrary are quite frequently expressed in non-scientific publications. In particular the idea that conscious mind is received, rather than created by the brain, is quite often used against “materialistic” understanding of consciousness. I summarize here arguments...
July 18, 2017 A. Lombardi
In his 1994 paper, neuroscientist Benjamin Libet affirmed that he found a way to test the interaction between the mind and the brain. He believed that this procedure would also test the reality of a non-physical mind, emerging from neural activity. In 2000 John Searle objected to Libet’s evident dualism, affirming that the mind is not a hypothesis to test but a datum to be explained. According...
July 12, 2017 Frank Villafana
People have been familiar with substances we now call “mind-altering,” “hallucinogenic,” or “psychedelic” “drugs” since ancient times. These drugs are the natural products of a variety of plants and belong, from a chemical viewpoint, in the class of organic compounds called “alkaloids.” From a medical viewpoint, the most familiar and most important alkaloids are apomorphine, atropine, cocaine,...