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Author : Joshua Rosett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011860447
Delves into the issue of man during his wide awake conscious state in comparison to the metaphysical or supernatural existence during the states of sleep, epilepsy and insanity.
Author : Peter Langland-Hassan,Agustin Vicente
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198796640
Inner speech lies at the chaotic intersection of several difficult questions in contemporary philosophy and psychology. On the one hand, these episodes are private mental events. On the other, they resemble speech acts of the sort used in interpersonal communication. Inner speech episodes seem to constitute or express sophisticated trains of conceptual thought but, at the same time, they are motoric in nature and draw on sensorimotor mechanisms for speech production and perception more generally. By using inner speech, we seem to both regulate our bodily actions and gain a unique kind of access to our own beliefs and desires. Inner Speech: New Voices explores this familiar and yet mysterious element of our daily lives, bringing together contributions from leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In response to renewed interest in the general connections between thought, language, and consciousness, these leading thinkers develop a number of important new theories, raise questions about the nature of inner speech and its cognitive functions, and debate the current controversies surrounding the 'little voice in the head.'
Author : Wolfram Keup
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461586456
Hallucinations, a natural phenomenon as old as mankind, have a surprisingly wide range. They appear under the most diversified conditions, in the "normal" psyche as well as in severe chronic mental derangement. As a symptom, hallucinations are a potential part of a variety of pathological conditions in almost all kinds of psychotic behavior. In addition, lately, various psychological and sociological circumstances seem to favor widespread use and abuse of hallucinogens, substances able to produce hallucinations in the normal brain. They not rarely lead to serious psychopatho logy such as toxic, and mobilized or aggravated endogenous psycho ses. While such development adds to our scientific knowledge, it also contributes to our current social troubles. Neurologists and neuro-surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists and other specialized researchers constantly have been dealing with the phenomenon, its roots and branches, and yet, its primary mechanisms are largely un known. However, investigators of hallucinations now seem to enter common ground on which meaningful discussions and joint approaches become feasible and more promising. We have come a long way from the Latin term "hallucinari", meaning to talk nonsense, to be absent-minded, to the modern con cept of "hallucinations". While the Latin word was descriptive of what may be due to hallucinations, the modern concept defines hal lucinations as subjective experiences that are consequences of men tal processes, sometimes fulfilling a purpose in the individual's mental life.
Author : Johanna C. Badcock,Frank Larøi,Paul Allen,Kelly M. Diederen
Publisher : Frontiers E-books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889192038
There has been a recent surge of interest in auditory hallucinations (AH) in schizophrenia compared to those experienced by non-clinical (i.e. healthy) individuals. This interest stems in no small part from a keen awareness of the fact that progress in developing more effective treatments for AH in psychosis has been seriously hampered by our limited understanding of the cognitive and biological mechanisms involved. The prevailing notion that AH in clinical and non-clinical populations share the same features and underlying mechanisms - the continuum hypothesis - has been seriously challenged by a growing list of differences, as well as similarities, between these groups. At the phenomenological level this is exemplified in the highly negative content of AH in patients and the markedly earlier age of onset of AH in non-patients. Similarly, several recent studies point to significant differences in cognition, language lateralization and, possibly, dopamine function between these groups. These findings have important implications for the design of future studies, and raise considerable doubt about the adequacy of modelling the functional mechanisms of clinical AH on the basis of non-clinical populations. In short, the time seems ripe to re-evaluate the continuum hypothesis and provide a forum to present alternative perspectives on the functional pathways leading to AH in clinical and non-clinical groups. Such a forum is also timely in view of the renewed interest in AH in other (non-schizophrenic) clinical groups, again examining similarities and differences between such groups. Preliminary studies, for instance, have shown that AH in certain clinical populations (e.g. bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorder) share similar phenomenological features with AH in schizophrenia. However, the implications of such findings are not fully understood, and studies have not adequately examined potential differences between AH in these groups. The goal of this Frontiers Research Topic, therefore, is take the opportunity to bring together research exploring differences and similarities in mechanisms of AH in clinical and non-clinical groups and to stimulate the development of new explanatory models which explicitly link the phenomenological characteristics of AH with underlying mechanisms.
Author : Steven M. Lehar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135636593
The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind, this book begins with an examination of conscious experience to see what it can tell us about the brain. Through this analysis, the first and most obvious observation is that consciousness appears as a volumetric spatial void, containing colored objects and surfaces. This reveals that the representation in the brain takes the form of an explicit volumetric spatial model of external reality. Therefore, the world we see around us is not the real world itself, but merely a miniature virtual-reality replica of that world in an internal representation. In fact, the phenomena of dreams and hallucinations clearly demonstrate the capacity of the brain to construct complete virtual worlds even in the absence of sensory input. Perception is somewhat like a guided hallucination, based on sensory stimulation. This insight allows us to examine the world of visual experience not as scientists exploring the external world, but as perceptual scientists examining a rich and complex internal representation. This unique approach to investigating mental function has implications in a wide variety of related fields, including the nature of language and abstract thought, and motor control and behavior. It also has implications to the world of music, art, and dance, showing how the patterns of regularity and periodicity in space and time--apparent in those aesthetic domains--reflect the periodic basis set of the underlying harmonic resonance representation in the brain.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:30000011044900
Author : F Mcguigan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780323147002
The Psychophysiology of Thinking: Studies of Covert Processes describes the relation between brain events and peripheral bodily phenomena in the context of psychological theory. This book is organized into six parts encompassing 14 chapters, which focus on higher mental processes. This book starts with the historical development of electrical measures of covert processes. The subsequent chapters discuss the mechanism of conditioning of central nervous system, the skeletal musculature, and the autonomic activity. Other chapters explore the principles of hallucinations, sleep and dreaming, imagery, biofeedback, evoked potentials during thought, meaning, and thought with concomitant measures. The remaining chapters emphasize cerebral mechanisms, which principal concern is with the involvement of other bodily mechanisms in thought. Psychophysiologists, neurobiologists, behaviorists, and researchers in the fields of thinking and covert processes will find this book invaluable.
Author : Army Medical Library (U.S.),National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015070981439
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Author : Andrew Neher
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780486144863
DIVBalanced attempt to understand and evaluate paranormal experiences, including mystical states, psychic phenomena (prophecy, poltergeists, water witching), occult experiences (astrology, UFOs, Bermuda triangle) and more. Role of physiology, conditioning and cultural context in determining nature and extent of paranormal activities. /div
Author : Leonard Zusne,Warren H. Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317784340
Updating and expanding the materials from the first edition, Anomalistic Psychology, Second Edition integrates and systematically treats phenomena of human consciousness and behaviors that appear to violate the laws of nature. The authors present and detail a new explanatory concept they developed that provides a naturalistic interpretation for these phenomena -- Magical Thinking. For undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in cognitive psychology, research methods, thinking, and parapsychology.
Author : Alfred Korzybski
Publisher : Institute of GS
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0910780080
Fifty-six items, plus documentary 'supplements', can be considered a biographical as well as theoretical working edition of the origins and development of Korzybski's revolutionary system called "general semantics".
Author : Alfred Korzybski
Publisher : Institute of GS
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0937298018
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Incunabula
ISBN : MINN:31951000422149T
Author : Mardi Jon Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037067837
Author : Alan Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015004118397