Anomalous Experiences

Author : Etzel Cardena,Steven J. Lynn,Stanley Krippner
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 143381529X

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Varieties of Anomalous Experience by Etzel Cardena,Steven J. Lynn,Stanley Krippner Pdf

For much of the 20th century, unusual perceptions and sensations, radical alternations of consciousness, and other extraordinary subjective experiences were ignored as legitimate topics of study in mainstream psychology. Recent years, however, have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the scientific study of anomalous experiences. In this updated edition, the editors have invited experts to provide definitive reviews and analyses of a wide range of anomalous experiences, from commonly documented sensations and perceptions like synesthesia, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and auditory and visual hallucinations, to rarer and more seemingly inexplicable experiences, such as anomalous healing, past lives, near-death experiences, mystical experiences, and even alien abductions. The book makes a compelling case for the inclusion of these marginalized and underrecognized experiences as not merely incidental but essential to our understanding of human psychology. Book jacket.

Author : Graham F. Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004548470

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The Psychology of Anomalous Experience by Graham F. Reed Pdf

Author : Matthew D. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780786455713

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Anomalous Experiences by Matthew D. Smith Pdf

Thirteen essays on the psychology and parapsychology of anomalous experience explore a range of phenomena, including extrasensory perception, haunting experiences, apparitions, alien contacts, seance room activity, and out-of-body experiences. The contributors are Daryl J. Bem, Etzel Cardena, Jezz Fox, Rachel Fox, Christopher C. French, Victoria Hamilton, Craig D. Murray, Ciaran O'Keeffe, Steve Parsons, Chris A. Roe, Julia Santomauro, Simon J. Sherwood, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Paul Stevens, Michael Thalbourne, Caroline Watt, Richard Wiseman and Robin Wooffitt.

Author : David F. Marks
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781529729726

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Psychology and the Paranormal by David F. Marks Pdf

The field of research on the paranormal has changed enormously in the last 20 years. Examining experiences of ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, ganzfeld, dissociative states, out-of-the-body experiences, alien abductions and near-death experiences, David Marks appraises the best available evidence to date on scientific claims of the paranormal. Each chapter also provides a description of the psychological processes that are likely to contribute to these experiences, and to the high prevalence of paranormal beliefs. Importantly, this book does not take a fixed sceptical or ‘disbelieving’ view of the phenomena but, as far as possible, offers a neutral gaze which will equip readers to make up their own minds, as well as providing them with the critical skills to defend their conclusions.

Author : Mariateresa Sestito,Andrea Raballo,Giovanni Stanghellini,Vittorio Gallese
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889454563

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Embodying the Self: Neurophysiological Perspectives on the Psychopathology of Anomalous Bodily Experiences by Mariateresa Sestito,Andrea Raballo,Giovanni Stanghellini,Vittorio Gallese Pdf

Since the beginning of the 20th Century, phenomenology has developed a distinction between lived body (Leib) and physical body (Koerper), a distinction well known as body-subject vs. body-object (Hanna and Thompson 2007). The lived body is the body experienced from within - my own direct experience of my body lived in the first-person perspective, myself as a spatiotemporal embodied agent in the world. The physical body on the other hand, is the body thematically investigated from a third person perspective by natural sciences as anatomy and physiology. An active topic affecting the understanding of several psychopathological disorders is the relatively unknown dynamic existing between aspects related to the body-object (that comprises the neurobiological substrate of the disease) and the body-subject (the experiences reported by patients) (Nelson and Sass 2017). A clue testifying the need to better explore this dynamic in the psychopathological context is the marked gap that still exists between patients’ clinical reports (generally entailing disturbing experiences) and etiopathogenetic theories and therapeutic practices, that are mainly postulated at a bodily/brain level of description and analysis. The phenomenological exploration typically targets descriptions of persons’ lived experience. For instance, patients suffering from schizophrenia may describe their thoughts as alien (‘‘thoughts are intruding into my head’’) and the world surrounding them as fragmented (‘‘the world is a series of snapshots’’) (Stanghellini et al., 2015). The result is a rich and detailed collection of the patients’ qualitative self-descriptions (Stanghellini and Rossi, 2014), that reveal fundamental changes in the structure of experiencing and can be captured by using specific assessment tools (Parnas et al. 2005; Sass et al. 2017; Stanghellini et al., 2014). The practice of considering the objective and the subjective levels of analysis as separated in the research studies design has many unintended consequences. Primarily, it has the effect of limiting actionable neuroscientific progress within clinical practice. This holds true both in terms of availability of evidence-based treatments for the disorders, as well as for early diagnosis purposes. In response to this need, this collection of articles aims to promote an interdisciplinary endeavor to better connect the bodily, objective level of analysis with its experiential corollary. This is accomplished by focusing on the convergence between (neuro) physiological evidence and the phenomenological manifestations of anomalous bodily experiences present in different disorders.

Author : Dr. Theresa M. Kelly
Publisher : University of Alternative Studies
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781329156401

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Clinical Parapsychology: Extrasensory Exceptional Experiences, 1st Edition by Dr. Theresa M. Kelly Pdf

Clinical Parapsychology: Extrasensory Exceptional Experiences is a graduate-level textbook designed to facilitate more reliable diagnosis, classification, treatment, and research. It is designed for clinicians, educators, and researchers challenged with investigating into the nature of distressing extrasensory (psychic) exceptional experiences. This textbook assists in interpreting extrasensory experiences reported in a wide diversity of context that are often viewed as religious, spiritual, anomalous, or transpersonal, and that vary greatly in subjective experience. This textbook is a valuable resource for both students and experienced professionals and is designed to be utilized by both individuals and educational institutions. Part I: Diagnosis (Differential & Co-Diagnosis), Part II: Classification (Dimensional & Categorical), Part III: Treatment Options (Recovery & Prevention), and Part IV: Research Methods & Measures.

Author : Christopher C. French,Anna Stone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137368065

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Anomalistic Psychology by Christopher C. French,Anna Stone Pdf

The science behind claims of alien encounters and visions of ghosts can be even more fascinating than the sensationalist headlines. What leads some people to believe in the paranormal? Why might someone think they have been abducted by aliens? And is there any room for superstition in the modern world of science? Anomalistic Psychology - Provides a lively and thought-provoking introduction to the psychology underlying paranormal belief and experience. - Covers the latest psychological theories and experiments, and examines the science at the heart of the subject. - Uses a unique approach to apply different psychological perspectives – including clinical, developmental and cognitive approaches – to shed new light on the key debates. Whether you are a psychology student or simply curious about the paranormal, Anomalistic Psychology is the essential introduction to this contested and controversial field. Belief in the paranormal has been reported in every known society since the dawn of time – find out why.

Author : Tony Cheng,Ryoji Sato,Jakob Hohwy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003827832

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Expected Experiences by Tony Cheng,Ryoji Sato,Jakob Hohwy Pdf

This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of authors specializing in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Predictive processing, or predictive coding, is the theory that the brain constantly minimizes the error of its predictions based on the sensory input it receives from the world. This process of prediction error minimization has numerous implications for different forms of conscious and perceptual experience. The chapters in this volume explore these implications and various phenomena related to them. The contributors tackle issues related to precision estimation, sensory prediction, probabilistic perception, and attention, as well as the role predictive processing plays in emotion, action, psychotic experience, anosognosia, and gut complex. Expected Experiences will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science working on issues related to predictive processing and coding.

Author : Hervé Le Tellier
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635421767

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The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier Pdf

A New York Times bestseller and a "Best Thriller of the Year" Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of Air France 006 will find out. In their own way, they were all living double lives when they boarded the plane: Blake, a respectable family man who works as a contract killer. Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star who uses his womanizing image to hide that he’s gay. Joanna, a Black American lawyer pressured to play the good old boys’ game to succeed with her Big Pharma client. Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet largely obscure writer suddenly on the precipice of global fame. About to start their descent to JFK, they hit a shockingly violent patch of turbulence, emerging on the other side to a reality both perfectly familiar and utterly strange. As it charts the fallout of this logic-defying event, The Anomaly takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House and a top-secret hangar. In Hervé Le Tellier’s most ambitious work yet, high literature follows the lead of a bingeable Netflix series, drawing on the best of genre fiction from “chick lit” to mystery, while also playfully critiquing their hallmarks. An ingenious, timely variation on the doppelgänger theme, it taps into the parts of ourselves that elude us most.

Author : Thomas F. Oltmanns,Dr. Brendan A. Maher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015012562966

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Delusional Beliefs by Thomas F. Oltmanns,Dr. Brendan A. Maher Pdf

This book represents a unique collection of ideas and empirical data provided by leading experts in a diversity of disciplines: cognitive psychologists involved with normal mechanisms of decision-making and information processing, social psychologists concerned with normal aspects of perception, as well as clinical psychologists, anthropologists, and psychiatrists. Each offers perspectives on such questions as: What criteria should be used to identify, describe, and classify delusions? How can delusional individuals be identified? What distinguishes delusions from normal beliefs? Also examined in this volume are the personal, interpersonal, and situational variables predisposing certain people to developing delusions; the ways in which delusions are perpetuated; and approaches to changing a particular delusional belief.

Author : Louis Sass,E. Pienkos,T. Fuchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3318060208

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Other Worlds: the Examination of Anomalous World Experience (EAWE) by Louis Sass,E. Pienkos,T. Fuchs Pdf

The Examination of Anomalous World Experience (EAWE) is a new, semi-structured interview designed to explore unusual experiences of the lived world, especially those that tend to be associated with the schizophrenia spectrum. It focuses on six basic domains of world experience: Space and objects, Time and events, Other persons, Language, Atmosphere, and Existential orientation. The EAWE may be used independently or alongside the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE) for a more comprehensive assessment of transformation of both self and world in clinical and research contexts. Individual domains may also be used by investigators who wish to focus on a particular aspect of world-experience. This special issue includes an introduction to the EAWE, a brief reliability report, and several ancillary articles that provide theoretical and empirical context and background for the development of the EAWE. The EAWE itself contains administration guidelines, item descriptions, relevant examples, and an appendix listing all interview items and subtypes. The EAWE will be of interest to researchers and clinicians. It should facilitate the examination of key anomalies of lived-experience that have often seemed to defy empirical study or clinical assessment.

Author : James McClenon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512804560

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Deviant Science by James McClenon Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Daniel Freeman,Jason Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199237500

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Paranoia by Daniel Freeman,Jason Freeman Pdf

Defines what paranoia is, the causes of paranoia, and the medical ways in which it is managed, with a review of recent events that may generate such feelings, past and present statistics, and biological factors that may make one more prone to being so.

Author : Giovanni Stanghellini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198792062

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Lost in Dialogue by Giovanni Stanghellini Pdf

To be human means to be in dialogue. Dialogue is a unitary concept used by the author to address, in a coherent way, three essential issues for clinical practice: 'What is a human being?', 'What is mental pathology'?, and 'What is care?'. In this book Stanghellini argues that to be human means to be in dialogue with alterity, that mental pathology is the outcome of a crisis of one's dialogue with alterity, and that care is a method wherein dialogues take place whose aim is to re-enact interrupted dialogue with alterity within oneself and with the external world. This essay is an attempt to re-establish such a fragile dialogue of the soul with herself and with others. Such an attempt is based on two pillars: a dialectic, person-centered understanding of mental disorders and values-based practice. The dialectic understanding of mental disorders acknowledges the vulnerability constitutive of human personhood. It assumes that the person is engaged in trying to cope, solve and make sense of new, disturbing, puzzling experiences stemming from her encounter with alterity. Values-based practice assumes that the forms of human life are inherently plural. Value-pluralism and recognition are the basis for care. This statement reflects the ideal of modus vivendi that aims to find terms in which different forms of life can coexist, and learn how to live with irreconcilable value conflicts, rather than striving for consensus or agreement. Care is a method wherein dialogues take place whose aim is to re-enact interrupted dialogue with alterity within oneself and with the external world. It includes practices that belong both to logic - e.g., the method for unfolding the Other's form of life and to rescue its fundamental structure - and empathy - e.g., the readiness to offer oneself as a dialoguing person and the capacity to resonate with the Other's experience and attune/regulate the emotional field.

Author : Etzel Cardeña,Enrico Facco
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 9782889194858

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Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions by Etzel Cardeña,Enrico Facco Pdf

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