| Description |
xv, 333 pages : illustrations portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. The Scope and Shape of Conscious States. 1. Consciousness and Brain Science. 2. Pushing the Envelope: How States of Consciousness Alter. 3. Waking and Dreaming: The Polestars of Our Stately Cosmos -- II. Beyond Psychoanalysis: Toward a Neurodynamic Theory of Mental States. 4. The Neurodynamics of Dreaming. 5. The Neurodynamics of Dissociation, Hypnosis, and Autosuggestion -- III. Normal and Abnormal Alterations of Consciousness. 6. The Brain-Mind and Its Conscious States. 7. Models of Conscious State Alteration. 8. Sleep and Dream Disorders. 9. Brain Dysfunction that Alter Consciousness -- IV. The Medical Drugstore. 10. The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life: Drugs for Anxiety and Sleep. 11. Regulating Mood: The MAOIs, Tricyclics, and SSRIs. 12. Psychosis and Antipsychosis: Opening and Shutting the Dream Drugstore -- V. The Recreational Drugstore. 13. Good Trips and Bad: The Psychedelics. 14. Feeling No Pain: The Narcotics |
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15. From Cult to Laboratory: Mushrooms, Cactus Buttons, and Coca Leaves -- VI. The Psychological Drugstore. 16. Treatment Implications: Changing the Brain by Changing the Mind |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Altered states of consciousness.
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Drugs -- Physiological effect.
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Psychopharmacology.
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Altered states of consciousness -- Physiological aspects.
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Neurochemistry.
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| LC no. |
00050013 |
| ISBN |
0262082934 : |
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