The Psychoanalytic Review
February 2017
Céline Masson, Silke Schauder, Simone Korff Sausse
This article links contemporary psychoanalytic theories of the dream, especially Bion's, with the work of the American video artist Bill Viola, who is deeply influenced by altered states of consciousness and produces images of dreamlike quality. We discuss the oneiric and infantile roots of creativity and artistic inspiration, finally taking Viola's monumental artwork The Passing (1991) as...
Consciousness and Cognition
February 1, 2017
Judith Katz, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Shahar Arzy
The life-review experience (LRE) is a most intriguing mental phenomenon that fascinated humans from time immemorial. In LRE one sees vividly a succession of one's own life-events. While reports of LRE are abundant in the medical, psychological and popular literature, not much is known about LRE's cognitive and psychological basis. Moreover, while LRE is known as part of the phenomenology of...
Current Psychiatry Reports
January 30, 2017
Annegret Krause-Utz, R. Frost, D. Winter et al.
Dissociation involves disruptions of usually integrated functions of consciousness, perception, memory, identity, and affect (e.g., depersonalization, derealization, numbing, amnesia, and analgesia). While the precise neurobiological underpinnings of dissociation remain elusive, neuroimaging studies in disorders, characterized by high dissociation (e.g., depersonalization/derealization disorder...
January 30, 2017
R. Allinson
The Platform Sutra, which dates back to the seventh century C.E., is one of the classic documents of Chinese philosophy and is the intellectual autobiography of Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism. In the Platform Sutra, the Sixth Patriarch demonstrates that the spiritual and intellectual problems of consciousness stem from a false adherence to the dualistic standpoint. The Sixth...
January 26, 2017
M. Torre
Abstract The paper urges a reconsideration of the term “religious experience,” as it is presently used in textbooks in the Philosophy of Religion (to which it first refers). The term needs to include not only what might be termed “extraordinary” religious experience (as used in those texts), but the “ordinary” experience of most who practice a religion, and it needs to assess such experience...
Open Theology
January 26, 2017
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
19 citations
AbstractApplying Michel Henry’s philosophical framework to the phenomenological analysis of religious experience, the author introduces a concept of material introspection and a new theory of the constitution of religious experience in phenomenologically material interiority. As opposed to ordinary mental self-scrutiny, material introspection happens when the usual outgoing attention is...
January 23, 2017
Massimo Cocchi, Lucio Tonello, Fabio Gabrielli
The present work deals with the complexity of the arguments underlying the meaning of the quantum paradigm of psychopathology. In particular, the quantum approach to the understanding of the brain and consciousness, seems to present convergence of thinking of many scientists and also seems to be the most promising way in the approach of future research. The practical potency of classical...
Current Psychiatry Reviews
January 17, 2017
Aubrey M. Moe
3 citations
Psychotic disorders are devastating illnesses that impact countless people worldwide, and a mounting body of empirical evidence promotes the importance of early intervention in psychosis for improving outcomes for young people living with these disorders. In particular, studies aimed at understanding the interactions between symptoms, functioning, and recovery amongst those early in the course...
Philosophies
January 16, 2017
James A. Reggia, Di-Wei Huang, Garrett E. Katz
8 citations
While substantial progress has been made in the field known as artificial consciousness, at the present time there is no generally accepted phenomenally conscious machine, nor even a clear route to how one might be produced should we decide to try. Here, we take the position that, from our computer science perspective, a major reason for this is a computational explanatory gap: our inability to...
Buletin Psikologi
January 12, 2017
Hendro E. Prabowo
Consciousness has been a popular topic in transpersonal psychology although the reviews were more focused on level of consciousness and states of consciousness. Theories of consciousness level are heavily influenced by perenial phylosophy concerning universal elements of consciousness, that are body, mind, soul and spirit. Transpersonal psychology also integrates Western and Eastern approaches...