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November 10, 2025 I. O. Pavlenko
Author: Igor Alexandrovich PavlenkoAffiliation: Clinical Psychologist, Rostov-on-Don, Russian FederationEmail: Lolkeey73@gmail.comAbstract This paper presents an integrative ontological framework in which phenomenality - the existence of subjective experience - is interpreted as a mode of self-presence of matter, realized through the retention of differences within a closed dynamic structure....
Journal of Child and Family Studies November 8, 2025 Emma W. Nathanson, Kristin M. Rispoli, Nicholas H. Ramazon
Many parents experience elevated levels of stress, and parents of children with externalizing behavioral concerns tend to experience even higher levels of stress due to the transactional and bidirectional nature of child behavior and parent stress. The Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR) model suggests that families work to balance demands with capabilities, which interact with...
Philosophical Psychology November 4, 2025 G. Mariotti
ABSTRACT This article investigates the neurophysiological basis of autonomously induced mystical states of consciousness (MSCs), with a focus on speculative mysticism, a tradition that centers on intellectual contemplation rather than emotional or sensuous experience. Drawing from historical sources, the paper explores the role of paradox and contradiction in mystical thought. It argues that...
Preprints.org November 4, 2025 William J. Tyler preprint
Religious and spiritual (R/S) practices and experiences invoke measurable neurocognitive processes that enhance resilience and recovery from affective disorders. Converging evidence from functional neuroanatomy and network studies demonstrate R/S practices recruit brain networks that regulate self-referential processing, salience attribution, executive control, reward, and social bonding....
Brain Sciences November 4, 2025 A. Benjamin Srivastava, Mark S. Gold
The past two decades have seen the reemergence of research investigating the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs across neuropsychiatric illnesses. One condition, alcohol use disorder (AUD), is of relevance given the broad public health implications and both limited effectiveness and attrition associated with currently available treatments. While emerging research has suggested that the...
International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies November 3, 2025 Sharleen A Harty, Jock Matthew Agai
Shamanism is one of the earliest examples of mankind’s healing modalities, beginning with African bushmen such as the Kalahari Kung. Some Africans and others still use trance dancing and medicinal substances to heal themselves and their patients, whether for free or through barter. Traditional Chinese Medicine (approximately 5,000 years old) heals the body and mind through affordable herbs or...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues November 2, 2025 Lawrence Fischman
ABSTRACT In Expansion and Regression in Oceanic Experience, Peoples and Rundel examine “what happens from a psychoanalytic perspective when a patient engages in psychedelic-assisted therapy.” In an elegant paper that has both a clinical and theoretical focus, they discuss what Romain Rolland described metaphorically as the “oceanic feeling.” They believe such feelings can have transformative...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues November 2, 2025 Karen Peoples, Megan Rundel
In this paper, we take up the question of what happens from a psychoanalytic perspective when a patient engages in psychedelic-assisted therapy. While some writers have suggested that psychedelic agents promote regression to an earlier point in development, we argue that such states may be better understood as expanding the mind beyond ordinary consciousness. We assert that traditional models...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues November 2, 2025 David Raniere 1 citation
This discussion extends psychoanalytic theory and practice to engage expanded states of consciousness elicited by psychedelic medicine. The author utilizes Peoples and Rundel’s clinical illustration involving ketamine-assisted psychoanalysis to propose the intra-collective as a transpersonal holding environment that encompasses and contains the intersubjective field, where highly organized,...
Gothic Studies November 1, 2025 Milly Kate Harrison
Algernon Blackwood's fascination with the concept of the personal ‘cage’ and the potential for liberation is central to both his worldview and literary legacy. This article explores these themes in his early, often-overlooked story, ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute ’, examining its depiction of emotional repression and freedom, particularly within the context of early twentieth-century...