Frontiers in Psychology
2024
Alejandro Troncoso, Kevin Blanco, Alvaro A Rivera-Rei et al.
14 citations
Empathy is foundational in our intersubjective interactions, connecting with others across bodily, emotional, and cognitive dimensions. Previous evidence suggests that observing individuals in painful situations elicits whole bodily responses, unveiling the interdependence of the body and empathy. Although the role of the body has been extensively described, the temporal structure of bodily...
Psychopathology
2024
Valerio Ricci, Giuseppe Maina, Giovanni Martinotti
11 citations
The term "dissociation" encompasses a wide array of symptoms and phenomena, all sharing the common characteristic of involving altered states of consciousness where an individual temporarily loses the sense of continuity of their own identity. In the context of addiction pathology, however, the dissociative paradigm remains a topic of ongoing debate. It fluctuates between the description of...
Psychopathology
2024
Helene Stephensen, Annick Urfer-Parnas, Josef Parnas
4 citations
In this paper, we wish to elucidate alterations of basic existential and intersubjective configurations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) through the phenomenon of Anderssein ("feeling different"). Anderssein is an important yet neglected notion from German psychiatry, referring to a specific sense of feeling profoundly different from others occurring in SSD. Although...
Health SA Gesondheid
2024
Ellen M Thobakgale, Roinah Ngunyulu, Mavis Mulaudzi
5 citations
Traditional health practitioners (THPs) understand spirit possession as a cultural or religious spirit occupying a person, while the mental healthcare providers understand it as a mental illness. The different understanding is based on manifestations that mimic that of mental illness, such as seeing and hearing things that others cannot see or hear. Spirit possession holds different meanings in...
Psychopathology
2024
Valerio Ricci, Giuseppe Maina, Giovanni Martinotti
8 citations
The state of twilight consciousness is marked by a focused narrowing of awareness, maintaining vigilance and attention while simultaneously experiencing perceptual shifts in the surrounding environment. It is crucial to recognize that this twilight state represents not just a contraction but also an expansion of conscious experience. Substances of abuse, particularly new psychoactive...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
2024
Charlotte Grégoire, Corine Sombrun, Philippe Lenaif et al.
10 citations
Trance states include various practices characterized by a modulation of consciousness, but with their own specific characteristics and induction techniques. They have been very seldom scientifically studied, and their phenomenological similarities and differences are poorly documented. This paper will focus on two types of Western trances developed after the leaders were trained in traditional...
International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP
2024
Charlotte Martial, Pauline Fritz, Héléna Cassol et al.
3 citations
It is not rare that intensive care unit (ICU) patients report unusual subjective experiences, ranging from a feeling of harmony with the environment to complex phenomena such as near-death experience (NDE). This 1-year follow-up study investigates the characteristics and potential global impact of the NDE memories recalled by ICU survivors. We prospectively enrolled 126 adult survivors of a...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2024
Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge
2 citations
How do reflexes operate so quickly with so much multimodal information on the environment? How might unconscious processes help reveal the nature of consciousness? The Default Space Theory of Consciousness (DST) offers a novel way to interpret these questions by describing how sensory inputs, cognitive functions, emotional states, and unconscious processes are integrated by a single unified...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
2024
David Wyndham Lawrence, Alex P DiBattista, Christopher Timmermann
3 citations
This study investigated the sense of familiarity attributed to N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) experiences. 227 naturalistic inhaled-DMT experiences reporting a sense of familiarity were included. No experiences referenced a previous DMT or psychedelic experience as the source of the familiarity. A high prevalence of concomitant features discordant from ordinary consciousness were identified:...
Frontiers in Psychology
2024
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Peter Bruza, Makiko Yamada et al.
8 citations
To arbitrate theories of consciousness, scientists need to understand mathematical structures of quality of consciousness, or qualia. The dominant view regards qualia as points in a dimensional space. This view implicitly assumes that qualia can be measured without any effect on them. This contrasts with intuitions and empirical findings to show that by means of internal attention qualia can...