Health and History
2009
Mathew T Martin-Iverson
Health& History 1112 2009 159 has to sort through a lot of other stuff to get it.He has some trouble keeping onmessage, often diverting tonon-related areas of psychiatric history. Then, we have to deal with his well-known opinions of the dreaded drug companies who are undoubtedly a part of the history, but could have been dealt with more objectively. I rather enjoyed his interludes into the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2009
Simon R. Jones, Charles Fernyhough
Article examining the phenomenological commonalities between Emanuel Swedenborg's experiences and near-death experiences (NDEs). It argues that a distal cause of Swedenborg's experiences was neural changes induced by his lifetime of unusual respiration, in conjunction with a predisposition to temporal lobe seizures. It concludes by proposing a number of empirically testable hypotheses emerging...
2009
Juan Arnau Pitarch
The article analyzes the figure of Indian philosopher Vasubandhu (ca. S. IV), one of the most important representative of the Vijn�unav�uda school of Mah�uy�una Buddhism. After a brief account on the legendary biography of Vasubandhu and other members of his school, the article focuses on the understanding of two of his seminal works: Tri£gi±ik�u and Trisvabh�uvak�urik�u, through the concepts...
2009
J. Jakonen
The American philosopher Ken Wilber has taken on a sizeable challenge by trying to unsnarl the modern world-knot and its secular worldview. In the course of his almost forty years of predominantly solitary study (he has worked outside academia for the best part of his career) and writing, Wilber has produced a body of work that spans from consciousness studies to sociology and anthropology, to...
Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy
2009
V. Rozhkov
This article is devoted to study of V.S. Solovyov’s philosophical research оf «new religious consciousness» as alternative of reflective consciousness. The accent is given to peculiarities of ontological intuition in «metaphysics of universal unity» and to «positive dialectics» as methodology to comprehend supernatural primary substance. Solution of this problem is realized in context of...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2009
Heesoon Bai
1 citation
Moral actions characteristically emanate from moral perception; therefore, if we are to improve moral action, we should see to improving moral perception. Accordingly, this thesis prioritizes the importance of moral perception in moral performance. Yet, perception is usually interpreted as reception and, hence, lying outside one's direct control, in which case the notion of improving moral...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2009
Michael Nahm
26 citations
The literature concerned with experiences of the dying contains numerous accounts reporting the sudden return of mental clarity shortly before death. These experiences can be described as Terminal Lucidity (TL). The most peculiar cases concern patients suffering from mental disability including mental illness or dementia. Despite the potential relevance of TL for developing new forms of...
Psychopathology
2009
Barnaby Nelson, Louis Sass, Borut Škodlar
The early intervention movement for treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders has extended to include pharmacological and psychological treatment of putatively prodromal (or 'ultra-high risk') patients. The psychotherapy that has been trialed to date is cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT), due to its apparent success with patients with established psychotic disorder and its current...
Cognitive Semiotics
2009
Jordan Zlatev
75 citations
The Semiodc Hierarchy: Life, consciousness, signs and languageUlis article oudines a general theory of meaning, T6e SemiofU Hierardij, distiaguishes between four major levels in the otganizaäon of meanijDg: consäousness, siffi fitnction and langfuff, ^tdiete eadi of tfaese, in this Order, both rests on the previous level, and makes possible the attainment of the next This is shown to be one...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Richard D Chessick
Abstract Even in this so-called era of the brain, there has been no consensual agreement on understanding the genesis of the mind by the brain, the problem that also baffled Freud, the neurologist at the start of his great discoveries. Especially, there has been no progress in solving what is known as the "hard problem," namely, how neurophysiological processes in the brain can produce...