Journal of Religion and Health
1991
Christopher M. Bache
6 citations
This study uses a model of consciousness derived from LSD-assisted psychotherapy to illumine an enigmatic set of painful experiences that occur on the mystic's path known in Western circles as the "dark night." It argues that the dark night experiences described in John of the Cross's classic workDark Night of the Soul can be conceptualized in terms of Stanislav Grofs category of "perinatal...
International Journal of Behavioral Development
December 1, 1990
David Foulkes, Michael Hollifield, Brenda Sullivan et al.
105 citations
Eighty children, 10 boys and 10 girls at each of four ages (5, 6, 7, and 8), were awakened from REM sleep on 10 occasions over the course of three nights in a sleep laboratory to report dreams. They also completed a variety of cognitive skill tests. In confirmation of an earlier, longitudinal study (Foulkes, 1982): Dreams were reported relatively seldom (median report rate of 20%); until age 7,...
Journal of Conflict Resolution
December 1, 1990
David W. Orme-Johnson, Charles N. Alexander, John L. Davies
24 citations
This article replies to a methodological criticism of Orme-Johnson et al., (1988). The original study reported that participants in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program located in Jerusalem significantly reduced tension in “collective consciousness” and behavior as measured by decreased conflict in Lebanon and improvement on several social indicators in Israel. Specification...
December 1, 1990
S. Blackmore, A. Blake, L. Tarassenko
Books about dreaming range from the 'how to transform your life in no time at all' variety, through psychoanalytic interpretation, to modern cognitive theory—usually with very little overlap between them. In this new book, Hunt attempts to span the entire range of ideas in explaining the multiple forms of dream experience. Dream research has arrived at a hiatus, claims Hunt. The previous...
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
December 1990
T Heins, A Gray, M Tennant
Hallucinations can persist for many years after childhood sexual abuse. If we recognise this, we will not mis-diagnose psychosis and we may treat with psychotherapy (talk). The hallucinations are distinct from hallucinations in schizophrenia though patients have frequently been given that diagnosis. They would generally be classified as pseudo-hallucinations. They are generally...
Nursing Science Quarterly
December 1, 1990
Doris D. Coward
182 citations
The purpose of this exploratory study was to describe the lived-experience of self-transcendence in women with Stage IV breast cancer. A phenomenological approach was chosen for the research design and analysis. Five women who had lived with metastatic disease from 2 to 7 years described experiences from which they derived an increased sense of self-worth, purpose in life, and...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
September 1, 1990
S R Wilson, R C Spencer
Following leads by Maslow (1964, 1968) and others who described peak experiences, this study was designed to learn more about the (1) subjective effects; (2) after-effects; and (3) interpretations of intense positive and negative experiences. Comparisons were made between respondents' "most positive" and "most negative" experiences and between these positive experiences and those of members of...
Applied Psychology
July 1, 1990
M. M. Delmonte
10 citations
Cet article commence par analyser l'usage de la méditation comme technique thérapeutique dans le cadre des modèles systémiques, phénoménologiques, psychodynamiques et comportementaux. Puis, la méditation est examinée du point de vue de Kelly (1955): les “construits” personnels constituent une méta‐théorie qui est utilisée pour fonder et développer plusieurs des dimensions des modèles mentionnés...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
July 1, 1990
G Thornicroft
A review of the evidence shows that there is no convincing support for a separate clinical diagnosis of 'cannabis psychosis'. Cannabis can, however, produce brief acute organic reactions and, in moderate to heavy doses, psychotic episodes in clear consciousness. Ingestion in naive users or increasingly heavy use in habitual users can precipitate a schizophreniform episode. Heavy users may have...
Dimensions of Mystical Experiences
June 1, 1990
R. Hood, R. J. Morris, P. Watson
In this research, 73 participants were categorized according to religious orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic, or indiscriminately pro) and were subjected to an isolation tank experience under one of two set conditions (religious or nonreligious). The experience was assessed by means of a modified mysticism scale with two factors: a minimal phenomenological experience factor (I) and a religious...