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• catalog abstract "Annotation In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states ofconsciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and howthat balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us toexplain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may causedepression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certaindrugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium.Hobsonexplains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal statesof consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presentsstriking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects onconsciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called"The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raiseand lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. Hediscusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorderscaused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discussespsychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions betweenlegitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses themind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions andpractices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.".
• catalog contributor b12132487.
• catalog contributor b12132488.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description "Annotation In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states ofconsciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and howthat balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us toexplain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may causedepression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certaindrugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium.Hobsonexplains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal statesof consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presentsstriking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects onconsciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called"The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raiseand lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. Hediscusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorderscaused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discussespsychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions betweenlegitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses themind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions andpractices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.".
• catalog description "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 psychopharmocology of everyday life : drugs for anxiety and sleep -- 11. Regulating mood : the MAOIs, tricyclics, and SSRIs -- 12. Psychosis and antispychosis : 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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]) and index.".
• catalog extent "xv, 333 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0262082934 (hc. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
• catalog subject "2001 K-750".
• catalog subject "612.8/2 21".
• catalog subject "Altered states of consciousness Physiological aspects.".
• catalog subject "Brain Chemistry.".
• catalog subject "Consciousness Disorders.".
• catalog subject "Consciousness drug effects.".
• catalog subject "Consciousness physiology.".
• catalog subject "Dreams physiology.".
• catalog subject "Neurochemistry.".
• catalog subject "QP411 .H633 2001".
• catalog subject "WL 705 H684d 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "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 psychopharmocology of everyday life : drugs for anxiety and sleep -- 11. Regulating mood : the MAOIs, tricyclics, and SSRIs -- 12. Psychosis and antispychosis : 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.".
• catalog title "The dream drugstore : chemically altered states of consciousness / J. Allan Hobson.".
• catalog type "text".