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Hallucinations

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307402193
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinations written by Oliver Sacks and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication--even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.

A Dictionary of Hallucinations

Author : Jan Dirk Blom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441912231
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Hallucinations written by Jan Dirk Blom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Hallucinations is designed to serve as a reference manual for neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, psychologists, neurologists, historians of psychiatry, general practitioners, and academics dealing professionally with concepts of hallucinations and other sensory deceptions.

Hearing Voices

Author : Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007224
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Voices written by Simon McCarthy-Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

Hallucinations and Illusions

Author : Edmund Parish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinations and Illusions written by Edmund Parish and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Real Hallucinations

Author : Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262036711
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Real Hallucinations written by Matthew Ratcliffe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion. In Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other people. He focuses on the seemingly simple question of how we manage to distinguish among our experiences of perceiving, remembering, imagining, and thinking. To answer this question, he first develops a detailed analysis of auditory verbal hallucinations (usually defined as hearing a voice in the absence of a speaker) and thought insertion (somehow experiencing one's own thoughts as someone else's). He shows how thought insertion and many of those experiences labeled as “hallucinations” consist of disturbances in a person's sense of being in one type of intentional state rather than another. Ratcliffe goes on to argue that such experiences occur against a backdrop of less pronounced but wider-ranging alterations in the structure of intentionality. In so doing, he considers forms of experience associated with trauma, schizophrenia, and profound grief. The overall position arrived at is that experience has an essentially temporal structure, involving patterns of anticipation and fulfillment that are specific to types of intentional states and serve to distinguish them phenomenologically. Disturbances of this structure can lead to various kinds of anomalous experience. Importantly, anticipation-fulfillment patterns are sustained, regulated, and disrupted by interpersonal experience and interaction. It follows that the integrity of human experience, including the most basic sense of self, is inseparable from how we relate to other people and to the social world as a whole.

True Hallucinations

Author : Terence Mckenna
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062506528
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book True Hallucinations written by Terence Mckenna and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters -- including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from outer space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the guise of poultry, and translinguistic matter -- and discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.

Hallucinations

Author : Aron Beauregard
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinations written by Aron Beauregard and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MADNESS IS MELTING BUT WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR In the grips of a bad trip, the hellish and overwhelming delusions are inescapable. Scarier than the overpowering visuals and boundless paranoia is the promise that there's no way out. Are you prepared to take that psychedelic pilgrimage?Are you ready to gaze upon an absurd growth that's gobbling up the entire world? Or take an unknown substance and hop on a private jet that spirals out of control? Would you let a young girl that spreads nasty rumors bend your ear to further her bizarre agenda? Are you willing to be paralyzed and stuffed into a coffin that's ejected into outer space, or overdose and have your consciousness transferred into a disturbed bird? These experiences merely scratch the surface of the lives you're set to live should you agree to take the trip...

The Neuroscience of Visual Hallucinations

Author : Daniel Collerton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118731700
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Neuroscience of Visual Hallucinations written by Daniel Collerton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, some two million people in the United Kingdom experience visual hallucinations. Infrequent, fleeting visual hallucinations, often around sleep, are a usual feature of life. In contrast, consistent, frequent, persistent hallucinations during waking are strongly associated with clinical disorders; in particular delirium, eye disease, psychosis, and dementia. Research interest in these disorders has driven a rapid expansion in investigatory techniques, new evidence, and explanatory models. In parallel, a move to generative models of normal visual function has resolved the theoretical tension between veridical and hallucinatory perceptions. From initial fragmented areas of investigation, the field has become increasingly coherent over the last decade. Controversies and gaps remain, but for the first time the shapes of possible unifying models are becoming clear, along with the techniques for testing these. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the neuroscience of visual hallucinations and the clinical techniques for testing these. It brings together the very latest evidence from cognitive neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, and neuropharmacology, placing this within current models of visual perception. Leading researchers from a range of clinical and basic science areas describe visual hallucinations in their historical and scientific context, combining introductory information with up-to-date discoveries. They discuss results from the main investigatory techniques applied in a range of clinical disorders. The final section outlines future research directions investigating the potential for new understandings of veridical and hallucinatory perceptions, and for treatments of problematic hallucinations. Fully comprehensive, this is an essential reference for clinicians in the fields of the psychology and psychiatry of hallucinations, as well as for researchers in departments, research institutes and libraries. It has strong foundations in neuroscience, cognitive science, optometry, psychiatry, psychology, clinical medicine, and philosophy. With its lucid explanation and many illustrations, it is a clear resource for educators and advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Hallucination Theory

Author : Spencer Gold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952631009
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Hallucination Theory written by Spencer Gold and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs aren't nearly as hallucinogenic as ideas. Any idea so believable that it becomes your reality, determining how you make sense of life and act in the world, is a hallucination. By expanding your definition of hallucinations to include ideas and other forms of stimuli, you can develop the ability to see the invisible forces pulling everyone's strings. In Hallucination Theory, Spencer Gold presents a philosophy that provides more than just the tools required to become aware of hallucinogenic stimuli - he also supplies the techniques needed to frame and leverage hallucinogenic stimuli to your benefit. The study of hallucinations is of the utmost importance, because hallucinogenic ideas govern imaginations and nations alike. In exploring the connection between microcosmic hallucinations and macrocosmic hallucinations, Gold has successfully invented a model to accurately calibrate how each individual's subjective experience influences our shared culture. By thoroughly analyzing how hallucinations hack our perceptions and alter our experiences of reality, Gold has pulled back the curtain to expose the inner workings of the human character.

Hallucinations

Author : Ronald K. Siegel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinations written by Ronald K. Siegel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1975 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pretend Friends

Author : Alice Hoyle
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784501131
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Pretend Friends written by Alice Hoyle and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Bea has a pretend friend, so does Big Jay. Their pretend friends are very different and people react very differently to them. Little Bea has lots of fun adventures with her pretend friend Nye Nye. Big Jay's pretend friends don't make him happy, in fact they can make life quite hard for Big Jay. This full colour story book helps to explain in a child-friendly way what life is like for those who hear voices or have other hallucinations or delusions as a result of mental illness. Appropriate for children aged 4 and above, it describes why these auditory and visual hallucinations are very different to the enjoyable imaginary friends many children create, and explains some of the things that may help people like Big Jay.

Hallucinations

Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinations written by Reinaldo Arenas and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1976 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mind's Eye

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307594556
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Eye written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.

Mescal, and Mechanisms of Hallucinations

Author : Heinrich Klüver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598052629
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Mescal, and Mechanisms of Hallucinations written by Heinrich Klüver and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oaxaca Journal

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307947580
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Oaxaca Journal written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "the poet laureate of medicine" and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian culture and hallucinogens, and the peculiar passions of botanists. "Light and fast-moving. . . . Among the botanical and anthropological observations, one catches glimpses of Sacks's inner life: his preoccupation with dualities, his nearly Victorian sense of modesty, his fascination with the world around him." —The New Yorker Since childhood, Oliver Sacks was fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados—mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders—he embarked on an exploration of Southern Mexico, a region that is also rich in human history and culture. Combining Sacks's enthusiasm for natural history and the richness of humanity with his sharp and observant eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is a rare treat.

The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
ISBN 13 : 9780140241662
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando written by Reinaldo Arenas and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hallucinations

Author : Meredith S. Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617282751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinations written by Meredith S. Payne and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. The latter definition distinguishes hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness. This new book gathers and presents research from around the globe in the study of hallucinations including the origin of hallucinations, auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenic patients, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, as well as hallucinations and suicide risk and the neurobiological basis of hallucinations.