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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Psychedelic experience"”.
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Integrating the ineffable: a social phenomenological analysis of the psychedelic experience
There has been a renewed and growing interest in psychedelic drugs in the 21st century. Drawing on social-phenomenology, cognitive sociology, and ‘set and setting’ theory, I delineate how individuals use socially defined frameworks of understanding to attribute meaning to psychedelic experiences. …
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Navigating the pluripotency of psychedelic experience: Learning from the challenges of destabilisation, towards the possibility of ontological transfiguration
Psychedelic experiences disrupt ordinary perception and can reveal that the reality we inhabit, and the self we take ourselves to be, are sustained by tacit assumptions that can dissolve. This dissolution is pluripotent and can be destabilising: the loosening of ontological foundations can catalyse …
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The phenomenology of psychedelic experiences
… into the clinical and therapeutic application of psychedelic drugs has shown great promise in treating a wide range of psychiatric conditions. While there is an ever-expanding literature concerning empirical questions about these drugs and the experiences which they engender, it is only in recent …
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Towards a Science of Mind: Schizophrenia, Mysticism, Artistic Creativity, Scientific Discovery, Psychedelic Experience and Extrasensory Perception as Functions of a Symbo-Organismic Scheme of Human Mental Functioning
This work addresses the issue of modern psychology's lack of a unitary conceptual frame by which to interpret its subject matter scientifically.
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Psychedelic Use and Psychological Flexibility: The Role of Decentering, Mystical Experiences, Ego-Dissolution, and Insight
… flexibility (PF) and characteristics of the psychedelic experience: self-perceived meaningful intention, feelings of comfort and safety, decentering, mystical experiences, ego-dissolution, and insight. The first hypothesis was that perceived meaningful intention and feelings of comfort/safety …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
… century, my aim is to show how works displaying psychedelic aesthetics are important venues for political deliberation with regard to citizenship. Through affective means, psychedelic aesthetics reimagine the boundaries of liberal subjectivity through a consciousness expansion <em>and return from …
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Ready, Set, Action: Potential Breakthrough Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
… determining which characteristics of a patient’s psychedelic experience or “trip” is associated with the decrease in their depressive symptoms. The results of this project demonstrated that an initial low dose of ketamine was significantly quick and efficacious in decreasing depressive symptoms in …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
… relationship between the texts one reads and the psychedelic experiences one may have. Reading texts has an effect on set and setting with respect to psychedelic experiences. Further, texts read—by figures like Timothy Leary—in the afterglow of a psychedelic experience can influence later …
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Where Does it Stem From? - Functional Neuroimaging of Monoaminergic Brainstem Nuclei in Altered States of Consciousness: Translational, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
… dopaminergic dysfunction. Chapter IV focussed on psychedelic ASCs, which are elicited by serotonergic psychedelic drugs, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). I found that serotonergic raphe nuclei connectivity is powerfully disrupted in acute LSD administrations – strikingly once more to the …