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June 2, 2021
This paper used an ethnographic approach to examine the phenomenon of possession in the ritual of baby birth with the chanting of macapat tulak balak. This paper sought to describe the phenomenon of possession experienced by the singer of macapat tulak balak and to explain how society perceives the phenomenon that occurs. To analyze the problem of possession, phenomenological aspects,...
Frontiers in Psychology June 2, 2021
Due to their complexity and variability, placebo effects remain controversial. We suggest this is also due to a set of problematic assumptions (dualism, reductionism, individualism, passivity). We critically assess current explanations and empirical evidence and propose an alternative theoretical framework-the enactive approach to life and mind-based on recent developments in embodied cognitive...
Theory & Psychology June 1, 2021 Siyaves Azeri
In “Scientific Realism and the Issue of Variability in Behavior,” J. F. Arocha (2021) proposes a (hylo)-realist method of studying behaviour and consciousness. Arocha adopts the thesis that reality consists of concrete (determinate) things, is orderly and lawful, and that it has an emergent character. I propose that furthering the critical power of the realist position requires the adoption of...
June 1, 2021 D. Raković
The subject of this paper is complete healing and spiritual integration within our extended quantum-holographic / quantum-gravitational (QHQG) framework of holistic psychosomatics (integrative medicine and transpersonal psychology). Such a framework could have significant implications for understanding the mechanisms of quantum-holographic control of the morphogenesis, including epigenetic...
June 1, 2021 R. Naiman
Envisioning the future of sleep medicine begins with an examination of the limitations imposed by our presumptions about sleep itself. Damaged by the overarching sociocultural forces of denaturation, industrialization, and medicalization, the tenets of integrative medicine provide a foundation for imagining a radically transformed sense of sleep and more effective approaches to managing sleep...
June 1, 2021 R. Naiman
Although dreaming was integral to the ancient Asklepian practices that form the roots of contemporary medicine, its clinical relevance has been obscured by a scientific bias against the phenomenology or personal meaning of dreams. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming play critical roles in neurological and mental health, particularly memory consolidation, mood regulation, and personal...
Neuroimage June 1, 2021 Yi-Xuan Feng, Ren-Yuan Li, Wei Wei et al.
Volitional eye closure is observed only in conscious and awake humans, and is rare in animals. It is believed that eye closure can focus one's attention inward and facilitate activities such as meditation and mental imagery. Congenital blind individuals are also required to close their eyes for these activities. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) studies have found...
Transcultural Psychiatry June 1, 2021 Baland Jalal, H Sevde Eskici, Ceren Acarturk et al.
The present study examined explanations of sleep paralysis (SP) in Turkey. The participants were 59 college students recruited in İstanbul, Turkey, who had experienced SP at least once in their lifetime. Participants were administered the Sleep Paralysis Experiences and Phenomenology Questionnaire (SP-EPQ) in an interview. When asked whether they had heard of a name for SP, the vast majority...
Transcultural Psychiatry June 1, 2021 Baland Jalal, Andrea Romanelli, Devon E Hinton
Previous research has found supernatural beliefs about sleep paralysis (SP) to be very prevalent in Italy, with over one third of SP sufferers believing that their SP might have been caused by a supernatural creature known locally as the Pandafeche. The current study further examined features of SP in Italy. All participants had experienced SP at least once in their lifetime. Participants were...
BJPsych Open June 1, 2021 Oli Purnell
AimsThis study examines what effect wilderness has on our conscious awareness, and by extension of that meta-cognition; our physical, mental and spiritual health. It reviews available scientific and artistic literature and integrates this with interviews in order to generate original grounded theory. It was found that intensity of wilderness experience varied proportionally with four mediators;...