Dream Drugstore Chemically Altered States of Consciousness

Name: Dream Drugstore Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780262082938

ISBN-10: 0262082934

ISBN-13: 9780262082938

Edition: 2001

Authors: J. Allan Hobson

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In this book J. Allan Hobson 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.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments



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



Beyond Psychoanalysis: Toward a Neurodynamic Theory of Mental States



The Neurodynamics of Dreaming



The Neurodynamics of Dissociation, Hypnosis, and Autosuggestion



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



The Medical Drugstore



The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life: Drugs for Anxiety and Sleep



Regulating Mood: The MAOIs, Tricyclics, and SSRIs



Psychosis and Antipsychosis: Opening and Shutting the Dream Drugstore



The Recreational Drugstore



Good Trips and Bad: The Psychedelics



Feeling No Pain: The Narcotics



From Cult to Laboratory: Mushrooms, Cactus Buttons, and Coca Leaves



The Psychological Drugstore



Treatment Implications: Changing the Brain by Changing the Mind


Bibliography


Index