The aim of the current study was to inform ongoing attempts to identify clinically meaningful subcategories of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH), and to evaluate evidence that might pertain to the suitability of current psychological interventions for people with bipolar disorder (BD) who experience psychotic symptoms. A comprehensive synthesis of findings on the phenomenology of AVH and...
Electroencephalographic (EEG) potentials have remained a valuable source of data and theories concerning neural correlates of consciousness (NCC). The EEG based methods are far from being exhausted and are continually valuable in the quest for the markers of NCC. To set the background for the research presented in this issue, we review the published work on EEG-based markers of NCC. The article...
Abstract The concept of “autonomy”, once at the core of the original enactivist proposal in The Embodied Mind (Varela et al. in The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991), is nowadays ignored or neglected by some of the most prominent contemporary enactivists approaches. Theories of autonomy, however, come to fill a theoretical gap that sensorimotor...
In reply to This discussion illustrates that perennialist perspectives are far from outmoded. I discuss the metaphysical aspects of my model, suggesting that there is no reason why transpersonal psychology should not address metaphysical issues, as long as they are secondary to phenomenological issues, and as long as they are based on evidence rather than wholly speculative. Attempts to exclude...
This paper reviews the nosological systems in the field of psychology, comparing the classic medical model with a developmental approach to psychopathology and wellbeing. The argument is made that a developmental model offers greater refinement for distinguishing phenomenologically similar experiential states. Due to their substantial overt resemblance, a contrast between spiritual emergencies...
There is variety model of dakwah, one of them is mystical dakwah. This model tends to reach spiritual consciousness (ma’rifat) which is sometimes hard to be understood. However, KH.Abdoel Ma’ruf through Wahidiyah Sufism was successfully implemented such mystical dakwah. This writing is based on a library research. Data was analyzed using content analysis by selecting and classifying similar...
The present article discusses the methodological assumptions for the study of the religious phenomenon according to the lines drawn in the various works of Angela Ales Bello, Italian philosopher, interpreter of the thinking of Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein in his various works. The task of this research is to understand how phenomenological philosophy can contribute to rethinking the internal...
Objective This report documents the phenomenology of the subjective experiences of 22 patients with substance-related disorders who were involved in a treatment combining cognitive–behavioral therapy and hospital sessions with ibogaine in Brazil. Methods Participants underwent a one-to-one semi-structured interview exploring the subjective effects of ibogaine. We employed interpretative...
Todd Feinberg, professor of psychiatry and neurology, and Jon Mallatt, professor of biology and medical sciences, have written a fascinating book that will both appeal to and agitate readers from a range of disciplines. The book tries to shed light on some of the more puzzling features of consciousness and in particular to bridge the infamous “explanatory gap” between neuroscience and the...
This paper aims to present a bibliographic review on near-death experience (NDE) and discuss its consequences, considering it as a mystical experience. NDE is an anomalous phenomenon which happens to some patients, generally, during or close to clinical death. When reanimated and conscious, the patient usually reports out-of-body experience, contact with deceased loved ones, a trip through a...