Love And Hallucinations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love And Hallucinations write by Alaina Sweeney. This book was released on 2014-05-05. Love And Hallucinations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A little sleep started winning me over. I leaned against my seat and rested. I awoke at 8: 45am thanks to the scratching gate. She was driving out, probably to church, my anticipation and hope. I tailed her Vox-Wagon Jeep out of the street, making sure I gave a reasonable distance. I drove into the Presbyterian Church yard and packed my car next to hers, walked into the church and sat beside her. The church service started and we had to sing from a hymnbook, I didn’t have one, so she shared hers with me, as we sang ‘Courage Brother Do Not Stumble.’ We smiled at each other each time the Reverend touched a humorous topic, or should I say she smiled? I followed her smile, as I hardly followed anything that went on in Church. I sat there enjoying her perfume, examining her from her neck to her toes from the corner of my eyes. The service finally came to an end and then the Reverend asked that we extend our love to one another in hand shake and hugs. I heard that part loud and clear. Before she could stretch her hand to me, I had taken her in my arms and said. “I love you, in the name of the lord.” She returned it and then the choir processed out of the Church. The Reverend returned and blessed us all as we left the Church house. I stayed one step behind her and then as we both opened our cars, I asked, “Is it okay for me to ask your name?”
Hallucinations
Hallucinations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hallucinations write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Hallucinations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness write by Rebecca Woolis. This book was released on 1992-09-18. When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This indispensable book about love and mental health addresses the short-term, daily problems of living with a person with mental illness, as well as long-term planning and care. Of special note are the forty-three “Quick Reference Guides” about such topics as: responding to hallucinations, delusions, violence and anger; helping your loved one comply with treatment plans and medication; deciding if the person should live at home or in a facility; choosing a doctor and dealing with mental health professionals; handling the holidays and family activities; managing stress; helping siblings and adult children with their special concerns. “Ms. Woolis produced a handbook which is both practical and accessible, eminently useful for all of us who have a family member with a serious mental illness.” –E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., author of Surviving Schizophrenia “Rebecca Woolis presents easy-to-follow practical guidelines for coping with the multitude of problems that regularly confront families. In minutes the reader can find helpful suggestions for dealing with any problem that might arise.” –Christopher S. Amenson, Ph.D., Director, Pacific Clinics East
The Primitive Edge of Experience
The Primitive Edge of Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Primitive Edge of Experience write by Thomas H. Ogden. This book was released on 1992-12. The Primitive Edge of Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'This is an extraordinary and exciting book, the work of a truly original and creative psychoanalytic theoretician and most astute clinician. Ogden continues to expand and to deepen his reformulations of the British object-relations theorists, M. Klein, W. R. Bion, D. W. Winnicott, W. R. D. Fairbairn, H. Guntrip, to illuminate further the world of internalized object relations. His concepts are evolutionary and at times revolutionary. Exploring the area of human experience that lies beyond the psychological territories addressed by the previous theorists, he introduces the concept of an autistic-contiguous mode as a way of conceiving of the most primitive psychological organization through which the sensory 'floor' of the experience of self is generated. He conceives of this mode as a sensory-dominated, presymbolic area of experience in which the most primitive form of meaning is generated on the basis of organization of sensory impressions, particularly at the skin surface. A major tenet in the book is a conceptualization of human experience throughout life as the product of a dialectical interplay among three modes of generating experience: the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid, and the autistic-contiguous. Each mode creates, preserves, and negates the other. No single mode of generating experience exists independently of the others. Psychopathology is conceptualized as a 'collapse' of the dialectic in the direction of one or another mode of generating experience. The outcome of such collapse may be entrapment in rigid, asymbolic patterns of sensation (collapse in the direction of the autistic-contiguous mode), or imprisonment in a world of omnipotent internal objects where thoughts and feelings are experienced as things and forces which occupy or bombard the self (collapse in the direction of paranoid-schizoid mode) or isolation of the self from lived experience and aliveness of bodily, sensations (collapse in the direction of the depressive mode). Ogden presents his unique development of the autistic-contiguous mode as the synthesis, interpretation, and extension of the works of D. Meltzer, E. Bick, and F. Tustin. He is careful to state that this psychological organization is a developing and ongoing) mode of generating experience and not a limited phase of development; an elaboration of this primitive organization is an integral part of normal development. All three modes are considered not 'positions' to be passed through, outgrown, or overcome, and relegated to the past, but as integral dimensions of present adult ego functioning. Sensory experience in an autistic-contiguous mode has rhythmicity that is becoming the continuity of being; it has boundedness that is the beginning of experience of the place where one feels things and lives; it has features such as shape, hardness, cold, warmth and texture, beginnings of the qualities of who one is. As his generous case examples aptly demonstrate, Ogden's theories are solidly grounded in his discerning work with a broad variety of patients. His brilliant pathfinding will enlighten and enrich the reader with invaluable insights. He will listen with new ears and with a fresh conceptual framework with which to comprehend the most primitive elements of human development and the complex interplay among the different modes of experience. This is a bold, important, instructive, and stimulating book of equally great clinical and theoretical applicability.' —The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association A Jason Aronson Book
Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine write by Christopher C. H. Cook. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.
