Abstract Having been banished from scientific investigation for nearly a century, the study of consciousness has made a triumphant return and secured a prominent place in research in cognitive neuroscience. There is no better example of this development than in research on human memory, where issues related to consciousness have been a central concern since the early 1980s. Much of the research...
Cognitive behavioural techniques are increasingly used as adjuncts to medication in the treatment of auditory hallucinations for people with schizophrenia. There are now literally hundreds of nurses trained in the use of cognitive behavioural interventions for psychosis. However, there is still disagreement about the nature of the cognitive processes that lead to deficits or biases in patients'...
Abstract Aristotle’s remarks on the soul and its relationship to the body, perhaps more than those of any other ancient philosopher, continue to be welcomed as stimulating contributions to contemporary debate in the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. Indeed, no modern reader with an interest in philosophical psychology will fail to be impressed by the high degree of conceptual...
Visual hallucinations (VH) are seen in about a third of all patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and are usually considered to be an early marker or clinical component of a dopaminergic psychosis. Their peculiar phenomenology has not yet been studied in a systematic manner. A semi-structured interview was performed twice in 62 PD patients. Different motoric and cognitive disease scales were...
Contemporary cognitive and neuropsychological approaches to dreaming show striking methodological and conceptual similarities with the scientific dream literature of the last century. The use of introspective dream reports and the emphasis on dream phenomenology are characteristic of both periods but were bannished during the first half of this century, the former by behaviorism, the latter by...
Article States Of Consciousness in Sleep, Dream and Beyond: A Biothermodynamic and Neurocybernetic Evolutionary Study was published on February 1, 2000 in the journal Journal of Intelligent Systems (volume 10, issue 1).
BACKGROUND: Jerusalem's psychiatrists expect to encounter, as the millennium approaches, an ever-increasing number of tourists who, upon arriving in Jerusalem, may suffer psychotic decompensation. AIMS: To describe the Jerusalem syndrome as a unique acute psychotic state. METHOD: This analysis is based on accumulated clinical experience and phenomenological data consisting of cultural and...
Time to knit2000Maryam Bavi, Seyed Jasem Pajohandeh
In this paper, it has been tried to investigate phenomenology of ascetic mysticism and romantic mysticism in Islamic mysticism.Generally, it can be deduced that mysticism and God-centeredness have a long history in the depths of mankind; and its background can be traced back to existence of human being on earth.The main purpose of phenomenological method of ascetic and romantic mysticism in...
Several recently developed philosophical approaches to the self promise to enhance the exchange of ideas between the philosophy of the mind and the other cognitive sciences. This review examines two important concepts of self: the 'minimal self', a self devoid of temporal extension, and the 'narrative self', which involves personal identity and continuity across time. The notion of a minimal...