cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2011
Molly Stewart Lawlor
Within the field of positive psychology, investigations of human potential and well-being have recently focused on mindfulness, a unique quality of consciousness. Mindfulness has been defined as the practice of being aware of one's thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally. Investigations of mindfulness have primarily focused on adult populations and have revealed mindfulness...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2011
Bābak Farzāneh
Mindfulness-based programs have become popular clinical interventions and are receiving attention in the scientific literature. This qualitative study explored the initial experiences of adolescents with “Sitting Mindfulness Meditation” (SMM: Kabat-Zinn, 1994, 2002), a technique that involves intentionally focusing one’s attention on the physical sensations of the breath while engaging in...
Sykepleien Forskning
2011
Berit Andersen Sandvik
5 citations
Background: The ability to be truly present is a core element in the nursing profession.Training mindfulness could be a method to develop this ability.Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate how nurses experience the phenomenon of being present in their nursing, and how mindfulness training as MBRS (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) would influence their experience.Method: An MBSR...
Explore
2011
Dean Radin, Cassandra Vieten, Leena Michel et al.
Advanced meditators occasionally report experiences of timelessness, or states of awareness that seem to transcend the usual boundaries of the subjective present. This type of experience was investigated in eight experienced meditators and eight matched controls by measuring 32 channels of EEG before, during, and after exposure to unpredictable light and sound stimuli. The experiment postulated...
Psychopathology
2011
Martin Bürgy
The phenomena which were grouped together by Kurt Schneider to constitute the ego disturbances have always been of particular diagnostic relevance for schizophrenia. The manner in which these symptoms are described and distinguished from other psychopathological symptoms has generally been rather imprecise. The introduction of phenomenological methods into the field of psychiatry led to...
Brain
January 2011
Dominic H Ffytche, Semir Zeki
A compelling single case report of visual awareness (visual qualia) without primary visual cortex would be sufficient to refute the hypothesis that the primary visual cortex and the back-projections to it are necessary for conscious visual experience. In a previous study, we emphasized the presence of crude visual awareness in Patient G.Y., with a lesion of the primary visual cortex, who is...
Frontiers in Psychology
2011
Silvio Ionta, Roger Gassert, Olaf Blanke
88 citations
Scientific investigations on the nature of the self have so far focused on high-level mechanisms. Recent evidence, however, suggests that low-level bottom-up mechanisms of multi-sensory integration play a fundamental role in encoding specific components of bodily self-consciousness, such as self-location and first-person perspective (Blanke and Metzinger, 2009). Self-location and first-person...
2011
Michael Pauen
The recent history of the mind-body problem appears as the history of a philosophical encounter with Descartes. Spinoza seems to play only a subordinate role. Spinoza's key metaphysical presuppositions and background assumptions all diverge radically from those of contemporary theorists. Given these deep-seated differences, any reference to Spinoza in the mind-body debate seems highly...
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
2011
Adam Wood
7 citations
1 Republic 436a (trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. C.D.C. Reeve, in Plato: Complete Works, ed. John M. Collins [Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997], 1067). 2 I will use the term "faculty" (of the soul) interchangeably with the terms "capacity" and "ability," and as synonymous with what the medievals usually called potentiae animae, although, as we'll see below, the medieval term harbored some crucial...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2011
Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays
1 citation
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing near death experiences and EEG surges at the end of life, referencing a report by Lakhmir Chawla.