Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures
July 1, 2021
A. Sommer
Despite ongoing polemical debates over the supposedly inherent opposition between science and religion, the current consensus in professional historical scholarship is that sweeping conflict narratives do not stand up to scrutiny. Where previous generations of historians of science and medicine often assumed intrinsic conflict, more recent investigations have instead demonstrated vast...
Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
July 1, 2021
Daniel Siepmann
1 citation
ABSTRACT From 1981 to 1991, the band Psychic TV served as the audio-visual propaganda unit of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), an international network of occultists designed by Genesis P-Orridge to resemble a subversive, militant youth movement. This essay investigates how P-Orridge, Psychic TV, and TOPY embarked on a calculated campaign of “occult research” to test whether chaos magick...
Aries
June 30, 2021
Misha Kakabadze
The ambiguity of "high" in High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World aptly captures the subject matter of Christopher Partridge's historical study.On the one hand, High Culture deals with the cultural history of "getting high"; it looks at how individuals have taken psychoactive substances and combined their experiences with esoteric, mystical, and...
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
June 28, 2021
Michael A. Rogawski
While anecdotal evidence suggests that select 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT2A) receptor ligands, including psilocybin, may have long-lasting therapeutic effects after limited dosing in headache disorders, controlled investigations are lacking. In an exploratory double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study, adults with migraine received oral placebo and psilocybin (0.143 mg/kg) in 2 test...
JMIR Biomedical Engineering
June 24, 2021
Henry Fu, Bernie Garrett, Gordon Tao et al.
Background Mindfulness-based stress reduction has demonstrated some efficacy for chronic pain management. More recently, virtual reality (VR)–guided meditation has been used to assist mindfulness-based stress reduction. Although studies have also found electroencephalograph (EEG) changes in the brain during mindfulness meditation practices, such changes have not been demonstrated during...
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
June 22, 2021
Emily Ng
1 citation
This essay reflects on the still-present difficulty in approaching contemporary rural mediumship as coeval with their urban psychotherapeutic counterparts. Drawing on ethnographic work in rural Henan province in central China, I describe how both rurality and spirit mediumship have been rendered anachronistic through national imaginaries, anti-superstition campaigns, and psychiatric discourses....
Brain Communications
June 22, 2021
Kevin R. Nelson
3 citations
This scientific commentary refers to ‘The evolutionary origin of near-death experiences: a systematic investigation’, by Peinkhofer et al. (https://doi. org/10. 1093/braincomms/fcab132). In the Gifford Lectures of 1901–02 at the University of Edinburgh, William James a physician, psychologist and philosopher categorized spiritual experiences thereby establishing the origins of their scientific...
Quaestio Rossica
June 21, 2021
Плеханова Ирина Иннокентьевна
This article examines the evolution of “mystical discourse” in the literature on the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 2008. It analyses the content of ideas about the participation of supernatural principles in people’s relations and in the fate of peoples in different historical conditions. The author reveals the gnoseological potential and socio-cultural mission of irrational knowledge that...
Di-san junyi daxue xuebao
June 18, 2021
LU Fang, XU Yuanyuan, YU Yongju et al.
Objective To investigate the level of emotional exhaustion and its relationship with depression and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in intensive care unit (ICU) nurses and explore the moderating effects of mindfulness. Methods From March, 2016 to April 2017, we conducted a survey of the levels of emotional exhaustion, mindfulness, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder among 500...
JMIR Research Protocols
June 16, 2021
H. Mansell, D. Quinn, L. Kelly et al.
Background Despite the lack of evidence on the use of cannabis for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the growing perception that cannabis is safe has led more patients and caregivers to self-medicate. Some psychiatrists now authorize medicinal cannabis for patients with ADHD with features of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) to curtail the unregulated (ie,...