Journal of Psychopharmacology
November 1, 2011
Harry Sumnall, Fiona Measham, Simon D. Brandt et al.
38 citations
Salvia divinorum is a hallucinogenic plant with ethnopharmacological and recreational uses. It differs from classic serotonergic hallucinogens such as LSD and psilocin in both phenomenology and potent agonist activity of the active component salvinorin A at κ-opioid receptors. Awareness of S. divinorum has grown recently, with both an increase in its public representation and concern over its...
Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine
October 1, 2011
Dominique Pringuey
A phenomenology of dreams searches for meaning, with the aim not only of explaining but also of understanding the experience. What and who is it for? And what about the nearly forgotten dream among the moderns, the banal returning to the nightmare, sleepiness, or dreamlike reverie. Nostalgia for the dream, where we saw a very early state of light, not a ordinaire qu duel. Regret for the...
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
October 2011
Andrea J Phelps, David Forbes, Malcolm Hopwood et al.
Consensus on the parameters of trauma-related dreams required to meet criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is critical when: (i) the diagnosis requires a single re-experiencing symptom; and (ii) trauma dreams are prevalent in survivors without PTSD. This study investigated the phenomenology of PTSD dreams in 40 veterans, using structured interview and self-report measures. Dream...
L'Encephale
October 2011
Jérôme Graux, Maël Lemoine, P Gaillard et al.
Cenesthesia and cenesthopathy have played a fundamental role in 19th and early 20th century French and German psychiatry. Cenesthesia refers to the internal, global, implicit and affective perception of one's own body. The concept of cenesthopathy was coined by Dupre and Camus in 1907 to describe a clinical entity characterized by abnormal and strange bodily sensations. In this review, we...
IFE PsychologIA
September 14, 2011
Fasiku Gbenga, RT Oyelakin
There is a prevalent assumption that the fact that a mental experience has a phenomenal property is an ontological fact and that the problem of explaining the phenomenal property of a mental experience isan epistemological problem. Contrary to this assumption, the paper argues that the claim that mental experience gives rise to phenomenal propertyis an assertion about the world, which is yet to...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues
September 1, 2011
John C. Foehl
9 citations
Distance is seen here not only as a clinical phenomenon of being hard to reach but as a phenomenon of the fundamental nature of experiencing. Distance is a concept that interweaves separateness and sameness, a way of understanding how we are fundamentally interconnected and yet private at the same time.
Advances in Consciousness Research
August 31, 2011
Arthur Melnick
The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that consciousness is a phenomenon that exists in and throughout the body. Apart from whether or not it...
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
August 1, 2011
Rolf Ahlzén
Scientific medicine has been successful by ways of an ever more detailed understanding and mastering of bodily functions and dysfunctions. Biomedical research promises new triumphs, but discontent with medical practice is all around. Since several decades this has been acknowledged and discussed. The philosophical traditions of phenomenology and hermeneutics have been proposed as promising ways...
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
August 1, 2011
Fredrik Svenaeus
In this paper, an attempt is made to develop an understanding of the essence of illness based on a reading of Martin Heidegger's pivotal work Being and Time. The hypothesis put forward is that a phenomenology of illness can be carried out through highlighting the concept of otherness in relation to meaningfulness. Otherness is to be understood here as a foreignness that permeates the ill life...
Philosophical Psychology
August 1, 2011
Michael Silberstein
15 citations
Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reduction Philosophy of Science Steven Horst New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 223 pages, ISBN: 0195317114 (hbk); $60.00 It seems to me that ther...
Analysis
June 20, 2011
John Cottingham
We are all familiar with the alleged ‘hard problem’ of consciousness – explaining how the subjective world of conscious awareness could arise out of neuronal activity. Owen Flanagan, an out-and-out naturalist, is committed to dissolving this much discussed problem without any appeal to ‘spooky’ immaterial entities or properties. Instead, he proposes that the solution depends on accepting what...
MacSphere
June 16, 2011
Darren E. Dahl
This dissertation examines the thought of Jean-Luc Marion in light of his treatment of divine revelation and in connection to the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur. It argues, first, that Marion’s thought bears within itself significant ambiguities that are determined by the legacies of the key concepts which organize his work: ‘givenness’ (donation) and saturation. Secondly, it also...
International Journal of Machine Consciousness
June 1, 2011
Donald S. Borrett, David J. H. Shih, Michael Tomko et al.
6 citations
A formalism is developed that treats a robot as a subject that can interpret its own experience rather than an object that is interpreted within our experience. A regulative definition of a meaningful experience in robots is proposed in which the present sensible experience is considered meaningful to the agent, as the subject of the experience, if it can be related to the agent's temporal...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 1, 2011
Georg Northoff
1 citation
Abstract Chapters 11 and 12 focus on psychosis. Due to the complexity of psychosis, I have devoted the whole of Chapter 11 to a discussion of its psychodynamic key features, including object loss, abnormal projection, and the splitting and fragmentation of the self.
Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies
June 1, 2011
Gary J. Brown
When C. G. Jung partnered with Sigmund Freud, he already had a broad knowledge of world mythology and an understanding of the unconscious formed largely from Schopenhauer’s Will and Nietzsche’s Dionysian energy of nature, or physis. Unwilling to reduce this unconscious—matrix of dreams, myth, and literature—to Freud’s infantile sexual libido, Jung’s break with Freud was inevitable. His long...
European Psychiatry
May 18, 2011
Phenomenology of the social self in the prodrome of psychosis: from perceived negative attitude of others to heightened interpersonal sensitivity.
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy
May 1, 2011
Nathaniel F. Barrett
2 citations
Book Review| May 01 2011 Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes. Nathaniel F. Barrett Nathaniel F. Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2011) 32 (2):...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
May 1, 2011
Mahmoud Talkhabi
The goal of this paper is to investigate implications of cognitive science as an interdisciplinary study for educating philosophy of mind. Cognitive science with respect to unified investigation of the mind (UIM), based on its methodology, has created new possibilities in educational planning of philosophy of mind while applying new methods and techniques to teaching. Epistemological...
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
May 1, 2011
Marino Pérez-Álvarez, José M. García‐Montes, Oscar Vallina-Fernández et al.
Recent contributions to the theoretical conception and empirical evaluation of schizophrenia in the light of phenomenology are opening the way to new perspectives in psychotherapy. The phenomenological conception understands schizophrenia as a disturbance of the basic sense of selfhood (ipseity) characterized by hyper-reflexivity and diminished sense of self. Evaluation consists of examining...
April 29, 2011
A. Monteiro
The aim of this chapter is to present the state of the art of the philosophical debates about pain and demonstrate its importance in the current Philosophy of Mind; my contention is that it is an important point of convergence between the research done in cognitive sciences and philosophical thought. The central point of discussion is whether pain is a form of perception, in the sense that it...