1.Psychologybeganasascienceofconsciousness.2.Behavioristsarguedaboutalienatingconsciousnessfrompsychology.3.However,after1960,mentalconcepts(consciousness)startedreenteringpsychology.2 BillLing/DigitalVision/GettyImagesChristineBruneStuartFranklin/MagnumPhotosAPPhoto/RicardoMazalan FormsofConsciousness Consciousness,modern...
The purposes of this chapter are (a) to situate current thinking on consciousness in the field of transpersonal psychology, (b) to formulate a distinction between states, levels, and stages of consciousness, and (c) to propose a heuristic model for the study of altered states of consciousness....
New Directions for Adult & Continuing EducationRoberts, T. (1983b). State of consciousness psychology and learning capacity. In R. M. Smith (Ed.), Helping adults learn how to learn: New directions for continuing education . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass....
The Mystery of Consciousness One of the great mysteries of science is how the physical molecules we humans are made of—the same things everything else in the universe is made of—give rise to the mental state of awareness (and, hopefully, understanding) of what is going on around us and...
what is consciousness? or the notion of self? Sigmund Freudhas been criticized a lot, but he contributed monumental theories to the development of psychology, proposing the concept of the subconscious. Ways to detect the subconscious: use dreams, projections, and free association to root our repre...
Two theories attempt to answer this question: One theory views hypnosis as dissociation and the other theory views it as the performance of a social role. According to the dissociation view, hypnosis is effectively a dissociated state of consciousness, much like our earlier example where you may ...
Erosion of consciousness, convergence of consciousness, restoration of consciousness, mixing of consciousness, confusion of consciousness, acquisition of consciousness, confusion of consciousness, extreme erosion of consciousness, level erosion of consciousness, strike erosion of consciousness, concentration erosion...
2.将注意力/觉知开发成为一种治疗工具(voluntary manipulations of attention: hypnosis, free association, 治疗师的均匀悬浮注意evenly suspended attention) 这种state of mind和冥想的状态有异曲同工之妙。弗洛伊德强调它对咨询师的价值,但忽视了它对病人的作用——它不仅提供了潜意识传递的可能,还避免了病人受到咨询...
Thinking, as one phase of imaginal "conversation," must be "sent" from the phenomenal "other" to an attenuated, receptive phenomenal "self." A reconsideration of the Würzburg controversy, adding closely related altered state phenomena to the transitional series between "impalpable awareness" and ...
Consciousness-the awareness or perception of the environment and of one's own mental processes. Many books state that consciousness isthe awareness of internal and external stimuli. One problem with this definition, and with this area of study as a whole, is that it seems like an impossible ar...