The dream drugstore : chemically altered states of consciousness /
Offers an understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. Hobson draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that bala...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | First MIT Press paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The scope and shape of conscious states. Consciousness and brain science
- Pushing the envelope: how states of consciousness alter
- Waking and dreaming: the polestars of our stately cosmos.
- Part 2. Beyond psychoanalysis: toward a neurodynamic theory of mental states. The neurodynamics of dreaming
- The neurodynamics of dissociation, hypnosis, and autosuggestion.
- Part 3. Normal and abnormal alterations of consciousness. The brain-mind and its conscious states
- Models of conscious state alteration
- Sleep and dream disorders
- Brain dysfunctions that alter consciousness.
- Part 4. The medical drugstore. The psychopharmocology of everyday life: drugs for anxiety and sleep
- Regulating mood: the MAOIs, tricyclics, and SSRIs
- Psychosis and antipsychosis: opening and shutting the dream drugstore.
- Part 5. The recreational drugstore. Good trips and bad: the psychedelics
- Feeling no pain: the narcotics
- From cult to laboratory: mushrooms, cactus buttons, and coca leaves.
- Part 6. The psychological drugstore. Treatment implications: changing the brain by changing the mind.