Psychology: states of consciousness

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.

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

In 1916, salon host Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe in New York, recording 142 dreams during her six-month treatment.

The Dream Discourse Today offers an unrivalled synoptic view of key American, British and French papers on dream analysis in clinical practice.

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Why do people seek a connection to something beyond the social dimensions of the world?

An exciting introduction to consciousness research and its applications to our waking and sleeping moments.

Die Schematherapie ist eine der vielversprechendsten psychotherapeutischen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre.

The Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced, how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and concerns of the dreamer.

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.

This edited volume shows the relationship between dream research and its usefulness in treating patients.

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

Written for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience.

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

Surveying contemporary networks and practices in Peru, Australia, and China, anthropologist Alex K.

This book takes a new approach to Shakespeare's plays, exploring them as dream-thought in the modern psychoanalytic sense of unconscious thinking.

This will be a very useful book for all health care trainees, helping them to deliver excellent patient-centred care.

Der dritte und letzte Band der »Ontosophie« ist geprägt von Ackers naturwissenschaftlichem Hintergrund und von seinem umfassenden Interesse für das menschliche Verhältnis zum Unendlichen, wie es nicht zuletzt auch von spirituellen und insbesondere anthroposophischen und fernöstlichen Welterzählungen behandelt wird.

This third volume in the Consciousness Reframed series, documenting the very latest artistic and theoretical research in new media and telematics including aspects of artificial life, robotics, technoetics, performance, computer music and intelligent architecture.

Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method brings together Carl Jung's active imagination and Robert Desoille's "e;reve eveille dirige/directed waking dream"e; method (RED).

In a world of 24-hour media saturation, sleep has become an increasingly fraught enterprise.

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Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning.

Routledge Library Editions: Sleep and Dreams (9 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1935 and 1988.

Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine.

This edited volume shows the relationship between dream research and its usefulness in treating patients.

On average, a quarter of a million children in the United States enter foster care every year.

John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward.

Originally published in 1979, this is a dream book with an outstanding difference: it takes the interpretation of dreams out of the realm of the professionals and gives it to the ultimate expert - the dreamer.

Sleep occupies around one third of a person's life and is the subject of research across many disciplines.

An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.

Existential Psychotherapy and the Interpretation of Dreams, by Clark Moustakas, presents a fresh model for the effective integration of dreamwork in humanistically oriented psychotherapy.

An transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making sense of experience itself.

The only book to present the international evidence on harms and clinical management of club drugs and novel psychoactive substances.

Why are sleep disorders more common in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), and how can parents recognise the signs and symptoms?

Much of what we say is never said aloud.

Charles Corliss presents, for the first time, the complete English translation of Herbert Silberer's work on dreams, Der Traum: Einfuhrung in die Traumpsychologie.

DAS BUCH ZWEI beschäftigt sich mit Polaritäten: Innen und Aussen, Seele und Körper, Oben und Unten, Yin und Yang, Gut und Böse, Belohnung und Bestrafung.

Much of what we say is never said aloud.

In Dreaming and Being Dreamt, John Schneider illustrates the central concept of all emotional functioning: that we are most alive in our dreaming, and that it is dreaming that brings us to life.

Cocaine abuse remains a major public health problem and contributes to many of our most disturbing social problems, including the spread of infectious disease, crime, violence, and neonatal drug exposure.

Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical.

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

Ein einzigartiger Bericht und massgeblicher Leitfaden für eine künftige Generation von Psychotherapeuten.

Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy draws on the author's extensive art psychotherapy practice and teaching to provide a wide range of creative writing and visual art methods for dreamwork.

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

Everyone knows that driving while under the influence of alcohol is dangerous and unacceptable, and there are methods to identify and apprehend those who break the law.

World-renowned contributors across several disciplines reveal how dreams can aid and empower children in daily life.

Hypnosis techniques to get you to a healthy weight once and for all.