Psychology: states of consciousness

Das Buch "Was wir wirklich sind - Die Erkenntnis für ein glückliches und erfülltes Leben" weist auf eine für das menschliche Auge unsichtbare geistliche Existenz im Menschen und im gesamten Universum hin.

Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.

A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness.

In this collection of papers and lecturers from the late Rainette Fantz, we witness firsthand the exhilarating possibilities inherent in the Gestalt therapy model.

In this book, Mark Solms chronicles a fascinating effort to systematically apply the clinico-anatomical method to the study of dreams.

Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the 1960s counterculture, reentered as an icon of new edge cyberpunks.

A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism.

The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the topic of consciousness, with the result that the research literature has expanded greatly.

"Ein sehr pragmatisch geschriebenes Buch, das Wege und Auswege zeigt.

After a fast-paced decade in advertising and marketing in New York City, Francesca Sipma felt something fundamental was missing, so she left her job and traveled the world to discover what it was.

Für viele Therapeuten und Berater gehört es zum Handwerkszeug, mithilfe von Metaphern und Geschichten verborgene Ressourcen zu wecken und dem Hörer oder Leser dabei zu helfen, zu werden, wer er werden will.

What is reality?

With the help of this compact guide, anyone suffering from CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) (also known as RSD - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) will better understand their condition and cope with the reality of living with it.

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the challenges and diversity inherent in the ageing process in India.

The book presents a new science of semiotic linguistics.

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science.

Sleep and wakefulness undergo important changes with age.

Did you know that intentional dreaming has been used to solve life's problems?

The purpose of this book is to clarify the function of the symbol and its place at the juncture of psychoanalysis and other social sciences, where the singular and the collective intersect and whose laws are identical.

Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.

The emergence of language, social intelligence, and tool development are what made homo sapiens sapiens differentiate itself from all other biological species in the world.

At least one of every three Americans has used an illicit drug.

Hochsensible Menschen schwelgen gerne in ihrer Sehnsucht.

Winner of the Arthur Shapiro Award for the 2013 Best Book on Hypnosis"e;The charm and value of Reidis book is that it is very personal.

Originally published in Great Britain in 1972 and distilled from the collective wisdom of the great interpreters of dreams - Freud, Jung, Adler, Stekel and Gutheil, among others - this comprehensive key to the baffling language of dream symbolism is a thought-provoking and invaluable guide to the uncharted country of the mind.

Hypnosis and Stress provides a practical approach to using hypnosis with patients suffering from a wide range of stress related problems.

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.

This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind?

Der Schlaf unterliegt gesellschafts- und situationsbedingten Wertungen.

Im Leben kann es immer wieder Situationen geben, die sich auf einmal eng und schwer anfühlen mit der Sehnsucht nach mehr Leichtigkeit, Lebensfreude und Freiheit.

Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels.

The idea that reading literature changes the reader seems as old as literature itself.

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.

Cannabis, marijuana, pot, ganja - it goes by many names -- is by far the most widely used illegal substance, and accounts for more arrests than any other drug.

The first handbook of its kind to address topics of consciousness from philosophical, anthropological and neuroscientific perspectives.

In the past 20 years meditation has grown enormously in popularity across the world, practised both by the general public, as well as by an increasing number of psychologists within their daily clinical practice.

This antiquarian book contains a practical guide to hypnotism, being a complete treatise on what it is, what it can do, and how to do it.

How can historians make sense of visions, hauntings and demonic possession?

What drives us to make decisions?

In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "e;brain science,"e; "e;cognitive science,"e; and "e;cognitive neuroscience.

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness provides the most comprehensive overview of current philosophical research on consciousness.

Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves.

The body, as the common ground for objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, is a phenomenon with a perplexing plurality of registers.

By presenting a holistic and integrated health and wellbeing approach to personalised care through wellness coaching, this handbook provides theory, insights, best practice, case studies and CPD activities in order to deepen practitioners' knowledge and experience.

An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind  A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick  “Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and Psychonauts is the latest in a series of excellent studies in which he has investigated the roots of a kind of psychoactive exploration that we tend to associate with the nineteen-fifties and sixties.