The dream drugstore : chemically altered states of consciousness /
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Author / Creator: | Hobson, J. Allan, 1933- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001. ©2001 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
Language: | English |
Series: | Bradford Bks. Bradford Bks. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115224 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Dysfunctions 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
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index