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Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: Visions, Dreams, and
Hallucinations helps future and practicing mental health
professionals build the vital cultural competencies needed to
differentiate between cultural practice and the presence of
psychopathology in practice. The book discusses and explores the
differences among visions, dreams, and hallucinations from an
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawai'ian perspective.
Each chapter first presents information within the context of
culture and then transitions to present information within the
context of diagnoses and neurobiology. Throughout, cultural
practices are discussed as normative, increasing readers'
understanding of diverse populations and their rich heritages.
Dedicated chapters explore American Indian psychology, worldviews,
and spirituality; ethical and cultural considerations; the
inclusion of cultural context within the DSM-5; the neurobiology of
hallucinations; and competent discernment. The book includes
valuable case studies that breathe life and humanity into a
clinically challenging topic. Understanding Indigenous Perspectives
is part of the Cognella Series on Advances in Culture, Race, and
Ethnicity. The series, co-sponsored by Division 45 of the American
Psychological Association, addresses critical and emerging issues
within culture, race, and ethnic studies, as well as specific
topics among key ethnocultural groups.
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This book is a psychological exploration of unusual minds, a
religious exploration of demonological myth, and a philosophical
exploration of the reaches of pragmatism. It uses topics such as
hypnotism, mediumship, and mass possession to argue for a
comprehensive understanding of the demonic that acknowledges not
only the creativity which it encourages, but also the danger it can
bring. Professor Ruetenik uses James' religious pragmatism to
evaluate the relevance of psychical research, and to explain common
beliefs regarding demons, spirits, and other controlling
personalities. The conclusion of this interdisciplinary research is
as alarming as it is fascinating: When exploring the demons of
William James, we discover that ordinary personality cannot be
clearly separated from what we consider the demonic.
Three particular themes are basic to this study. First, that the
human race and its environment are involved in a slowly progressive
process of revelation and understanding of its inherent features.
And that we are all participating in this ongoing evolutionary
cycle. Second, and closely related to the first tenet, man is not
separable from his environment. We all share in this cyclic
development. Third, that our egoic structures, with the data and
experiences they involve, can play a key role in our personal
understanding of this ongoing developmental process. The role of
the ego is paradoxical. It can be a relatively stable reference
used to enhance personal insight concerning its own dynamic
structure and similar aspects of its environment. Or it can be
maintained with a rigidity that hinders progressive learning. That
is, the ego unit has the dual possibilities of affording a focus
aiding progressive insight, or becoming a barrier that temporarily
diminishes it. The aim of this study is therefore to reduce
possible restrictive rigidity as we investigate the role of the
egoic unit in seeking greater understanding of its own dynamic
structures and their similarly dynamic environment. To pursue this
aim we refer to insights from medical practice, philosophy and
science. The underlying awareness of an evolving consciousness
means that the insights and ideas presented are shared in the
expectation that they too will be modified in due course. But if
they help provoke interest and insight concerning the paradoxical
nature o f our personal processes, they will have served their
purpose.
Three particular themes are basic to this study. First, that the
human race and its environment are involved in a slowly progressive
process of revelation and understanding of its inherent features.
And that we are all participating in this ongoing evolutionary
cycle. Second, and closely related to the first tenet, man is not
separable from his environment. We all share in this cyclic
development. Third, that our egoic structures, with the data and
experiences they involve, can play a key role in our personal
understanding of this ongoing developmental process. The role of
the ego is paradoxical. It can be a relatively stable reference
used to enhance personal insight concerning its own dynamic
structure and similar aspects of its environment. Or it can be
maintained with a rigidity that hinders progressive learning. That
is, the ego unit has the dual possibilities of affording a focus
aiding progressive insight, or becoming a barrier that temporarily
diminishes it. The aim of this study is therefore to reduce
possible restrictive rigidity as we investigate the role of the
egoic unit in seeking greater understanding of its own dynamic
structures and their similarly dynamic environment. To pursue this
aim we refer to insights from medical practice, philosophy and
science. The underlying awareness of an evolving consciousness
means that the insights and ideas presented are shared in the
expectation that they too will be modified in due course. But if
they help provoke interest and insight concerning the paradoxical
nature o f our personal processes, they will have served their
purpose.
For decades we have witnessed the emergence of a media age of
illusion that is based on the principles of physics-the
multidimensionality, immateriality, and non-locality of the unified
field of energy and information-as a virtual reality. As a result,
a new paradigm shift has reframed the cognitive unconscious of
individuals and collectives and generated a worldview in which
mediated illusion prevails. Exploring the Collective Unconscious in
a Digital Age investigates the cognitive significance of an altered
mediated reality that appears to have all the dimensions of a
dreamscape. This book presents the idea that if the digital
media-sphere proves to be structurally and functionally analogous
to a dreamscape, the Collective Unconscious researched by Carl Jung
and the Cognitive Unconscious researched by George Lakoff are
susceptible to research according to the parameters of hard
science. This pivotal research-based publication is ideally
designed for use by psychologists, theorists, researchers, and
graduate-level students studying human cognition and the influence
of the digital media revolution.
The book explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy
that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the
foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy
and psychoanalysis. The focus is on the workings of unconscious
thought and the role it plays in thinking, language, perception,
and human identity.
Interdisciplinary essays on psychedelic consciousness. Presenting
an interdisciplinary selection of twenty-five essays first
delivered at Breaking Convention 2015, the third conference on
psychedelic consciousness, culture, and clinical research, held at
the University of Greenwich, London. Breaking Convention is the
largest symposium of its kind, featuring more than 120 academic
presentations biennially. Widely regarded as one of the foremost
global platforms for serious research into psychedelic
pharmacology, the conference has been instrumental in altering
popular attitudes towards policy reform, with research focusing on
the potential benefits that psychedelic therapies might hold in the
treatment of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and in
harm reduction among habitual substance abusers. Psychedelic
Pharmacology for the 21stCentury spans the sciences and humanities,
from philosophy and neuroscience through chemical models of action
to clinical use. This latest volume includes cross-cultural
approaches exploring the global drug economy, clinical MDMA trials,
histories of psychedelic literature, the enigma of the pineal
gland, acid mediumship and psychedelic landscaping. Contributors
Allan Badiner, Rick Doblin, Amanda Feilding, Ido Hartogsohn,
Jennifer Lyke, Dale Pendell, Iker Puente
Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores
how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the
mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect,
perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and
intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept
of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive
science. Enactivism is presented as a philosophy of nature that has
significant methodological and theoretical implications for the
scientific investigation of the mind. Gallagher argues that, like
the basic phenomena of perception and action, sophisticated
cognitive phenomena like reflection, imagining, and mathematical
reasoning are best explained in terms of an affordance-based
skilled coping. He offers an account of the continuity that runs
between basic action, affectivity, and a rationality that in every
case remains embodied. Gallagher's analysis also addresses recent
predictive models of brain function and outlines an alternative,
enactivist interpretation that emphasizes the close coupling of
brain, body and environment rather than a strong boundary that
isolates the brain in its internal processes. The extensive
relational dynamics that integrates the brain with the extra-neural
body opens into an environment that is physical, social and
cultural and that recycles back into the enactive process.
Cognitive processes are in-the-world rather than in-the-head; they
are situated in affordance spaces defined across evolutionary,
developmental and individual histories, and are constrained by
affective processes and normative dimensions of social and cultural
practices.
This book is a compilation of: Short Stories and Metaphors Mind
Changing Short Stories and Metaphors Moving Forward The stories are
set out alphabetically by their titles. Under the title there is a
short description of the meaning of the story that will help the
reader to 'cherry pick' in order to select something that is
relevant to their situation in life. When used in NLP and
hypnotherapy, metaphors have long given insights into the
difficulties of people and have shown the ways in which we can
escape or improve. If the stories strike a chord with you, then
they also show a way out. These short stories, metaphors and
interactive scripts will help you to eliminate negative thoughts
and achieve your dreams by allowing you to relax while reading
stories that can bring about positive change. Some of the stories
will relax you, others will make you think. Some allow you to enter
a light feeling of hypnosis. Hypnotherapy and hypnosis have been
major users of metaphors to show different approaches to problems
and their resolution. Milton Erickson, the grandfather of modern
hypnotherapy used metaphors to great effect in resolving problems
with his patients. Self hypnosis allows you to enter the areas of
your mind where you can become imaginative and optimistic. You can
create your dreams and the ways in which you will achieve them. The
most perfect thing about humans is our lack of perfection. It is
what drives us to seek improvement. We should always strive to be
better, happier, healthier and fulfilled by loving ourselves, our
neighbours and life of all sorts on our planet. When we dream we
transport our minds to places where life is better and where your
goals should be placed. Positive thoughts eliminate the nightmares
we find in sleep and our waking lives. We can realise that there is
something better in the future. When we berate ourselves for not
being perfect we wallow in failure. When we see that the future can
be better we thrive in the optimistic feeling that no matter what
has befallen us there is always the opportunity for betterment
rather than assuming that we have reached an end point. As you read
this book, either to yourself, to other people or to clients you
will find answers and will be able to give insights into problems.
This allows movement away from difficulties towards finding
solutions and implementing them. The decision to look at life from
new perspectives gives the chance to earn your true value in the
world and to profit from constructive change. Rather than being
held back by old beliefs and attitudes, the reader moves into a new
way of thinking, a new way of acting and a new way of life. Taking
and acting on decisions is paramount to success. By moving forward
now, you invest in a brighter future.
What is consciousness? Does it exist? Is it a physical phenomenon
or somehow beyond the physical? Does it have any real influence on
your behaviour? Can you be sure that you are the only consciousness
arising from your brain? Stuff and Consciousness is a fascinating
philosophical exploration into the forest of questions surrounding
consciousness, encountering along the way many thickets and
creepers including randomly firing brains and multiple copies of
your own brain and body. Although these are questions that cannot
yet all be answered, Pereira sets out the possible solutions being
considered in the field of philosophy, assesses their plausibility
and argues towards a stance from which the remaining answers may be
found.
How do we understand and explain phenomena in psychology? What does
the concept of "causality" mean when we discuss higher
psychological functions and behavior? Is it possible to generate
"laws" in a psychological and behavioral science-laws that go
beyond statistical regularities, frequencies, and probabilities? An
international group of authors compare and contrast the use of a
causal model in psychology with a newer model-the catalytic model.
The Catalyzing Mind: Beyond Models of Causality proposes an
approach to the qualitative nature of psychological phenomena that
focuses on the psychological significance and meaning of
conditions, contexts, and situations as well as their
sign-mediating processes. Contributors develop, apply, and
criticize the notion of a catalyzing mind in hopes of achieving
conceptual clarity and rigor. Disciplines such as philosophy,
psychology, semiotics and biosemiotics are used for an
interdisciplinary approach to the book. Research topics such as
history and national identity, immigration, and transitions to
adulthood are all brought into a dialogue with the concept of the
catalyzing mind. With a variety of disciplines, theoretical
concepts, and research topics this book is a collective effort at
an approach to move beyond models of causality for explaining and
understanding psychological phenomena.
This volume is product of the third online consciousness
conference, held at http: //consciousnessonline.com in February and
March 2011. Chapters range over epistemological issues in the
science and philosophy of perception, what neuroscience can do to
help us solve philosophical issues in the philosophy of mind, what
the true nature of black and white vision, pain, auditory,
olfactory, or multi-modal experiences are, to higher-order theories
of consciousness, synesthesia, among others. Each chapter includes
a target article, commentaries, and in most cases, a final response
from the author. Though wide-ranging all of the papers aim to
understand consciousness both from the inside, as we experience it,
and from the outside as we encounter it in our science.
The Online Consciousness Conference, founded and organized by
Richard Brown, is dedicated to the rigorous study of consciousness
and mind. The goal is to bring philosophers, scientists, and
interested lay persons together in an online venue to promote
high-level discussion and exchanging of views, ideas and data
related to the scientific and philosophical study of
consciousness.
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