Journal of Humanistic Psychology
May 28, 2018
Alfonso Santarpia, T. Ricci, Glenn Meuche et al.
We make meaning of disease, suffering, and death through narrative, by telling a story. In a therapeutic narrative approach, this article explores the influence of shamanic intervention in psycho-oncology. This qualitative study seeks to present the narrative effects of detailed shamanic sessions (the use of the drum and telling and interpreting visions according to the shamanic mythology) in...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
May 28, 2018
Martin Farrell
This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history. Focusing on the major ideas that have reoccurred throughout history, such as the mind-body problem and...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
May 28, 2018
Martin Farrell
This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history. Focusing on the major ideas that have reoccurred throughout history, such as the mind-body problem and...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
May 25, 2018
Brimadevi van Niekerk
63 citations
Some Victorian evolutionary thinkers, such as James Frazer, theorised that humanity’s mental stages are characterised by magic, followed by religion, culminating in science. Put another way, the notion of humanity’s encounter with the sacred in society will eventually retreat, giving way to secular conditions, and that science and rationality would triumph as a more persuasive means of...
Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy
May 24, 2018
Francesco Tommasi
2 citations
An apparently paradoxical tendency in contemporary Philosophy of Religion consists in no longer seeking transcendence starting with invisible and immaterial elements, such as the soul, the spirit, or God known to reason. Instead a bridge between philosophy and theology has been singled out in the body. But how can one reach an idea of transcendence starting from the body? In these short...
May 23, 2018
Joshua Shepherd
It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments...
May 20, 2018
Kevin Neil Page
Chapter 4 introduces the field of consciousness studies and training, which includes exercising the attention function with such practices as meditation (concentration on a single object) and mindfulness (attention paid to the whole field of awareness). We then apply the concept of training the attention function to actor training as described in earlier chapters and look at how this activity...
LSHTM Research Online
May 19, 2018
Nadia Judith Bijaoui, Joshua Bernstein, Christine Markham et al.
The science of dreams and their interpretation may seem like a recent trend, justifying current research interests. Yet, for centuries, dream science, once called oneirology, has captivated dreamers in quest of meanings and motivated scientists in search of explanations. Due to the recent expansion of dream research this narrative review discusses and explores relationships between dreaming and...
Libraries and Cultural Resources
May 18, 2018
Brenda Elizabeth Mansfield
2 citations
This research is an attempt to expand the topic of “heart in pedagogy” by exploring how the cultivation of positive emotional states may affect the pedagogical relationality between teacher and student and, ultimately, classroom climate. After all, “we never educate directly, but indirectly through means of the environment” (Dewey, 1944, p. 19). A heartfulness approach in education complements...
European Journal of Neuroscience
May 16, 2018
Anthony M. Harris, Paul Edmund Dux, Jason B. Mattingley
41 citations
Delineating the neural correlates of sensory awareness is a key requirement for developing a neuroscientific understanding of consciousness. A neural signal that has been proposed as a key neural correlate of awareness is amplitude reduction of 8-14 Hz alpha oscillations. Alpha oscillations are also closely linked to processes of spatial attention, providing potential alternative explanations...