Psychology: states of consciousness

Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old.

Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old.

Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe.

Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe.

Much of what we say is never said aloud.

Much of what we say is never said aloud.

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.

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.

Sleep dysfunction is one of the primary symptoms reported by patients with psychiatric disorders, and specifically those suffering from anxiety and depressive disorders.

Sleep dysfunction is one of the primary symptoms reported by patients with psychiatric disorders, and specifically those suffering from anxiety and depressive disorders.

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh!

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh!

The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the long overdue successor to Fromm and Nash's Contemporary Hypnosis Research (Guilford Press), which has been regarded as the field's authoritative scholarly reference for over 35 years.

What is consciousness?

What is consciousness?

Why do we need sleep?

Why do we need sleep?

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious.

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, the key to which is experiential or phenomenal continuity.

The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness.

What is dreaming, and what causes it?

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious.

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area.

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

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

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, the key to which is experiential or phenomenal continuity.

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love.

What is dreaming, and what causes it?

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.

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899.

Sleep problems in children and adolescents are very common and often the cause of concern and distress for both the child and the family.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

Research over the past decade has helped to demystify hypnosis and meditation, bringing these practices into the scientific and clinical mainstream.

Research over the past decade has helped to demystify hypnosis and meditation, bringing these practices into the scientific and clinical mainstream.

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

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

The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them.

The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them.

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream.

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream.

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Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges.

Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sleep problems in children and adolescents are very common and often the cause of concern and distress for both the child and the family.

Sleep's purposes and benefits - and the impacts of not sleeping well or well enough - have been intensively investigated as a modern science for nearly 60 years.