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Published in Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Dialogues on the Ethics of Abortion, 2022
So what is crucial to conscious awareness is a functioning cerebral cortex.26 There also needs to be a connection between the spinal cord and the thalamus. This article here states that this “starts to develop from 14 weeks onwards and is finished at 20 weeks.”27
STRIVE Principles
Published in James Crossley, Functional Exercise and Rehabilitation, 2021
To understand coordination, it is useful to separate the functional mind into two distinct parts, the ‘conscious’ and ‘subconscious mind’. Just like a giant iceberg, conscious awareness represents only a mere tip of the iceberg, a small portion sitting above a far more powerful subconscious intellect.
The Medical Gaze
Published in Roger Neighbour, Jamie Hynes, Iona Heath, The Inner Physician, 2018
Roger Neighbour, Jamie Hynes, Iona Heath
Conventional wisdom is that we should do our best to suppress this internal noise as a distraction with no contribution to make to the clinical process. But we simply can’t: it’s there. The Inner Physician is present in the consulting room whether we like it or not, whether the patient realises it or not. The lesson of the new physics, and a key feature of modern generalism, is that we cannot, need not, should not try to factor it out. The observer/doctor’s stream of conscious awareness here inside is integral to building up a comprehensive understanding of the clinical world out there. The lower sector of Figure 4.2 is intended to depict how a ‘big picture’ medical gaze, incorporating the observer effect, points inwards as well as outwards.
Harm in Hypnosis: Three Understandings From Psychoanalysis That Can Help
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2018
UN-consciousness takes us beyond “consciousness,” even deeper into complexity and unknown. The German philosopher, Friedrich Schelling, is attributed with creating the term “unconscious” (although millennia of secular and religious philosophers have written about an internal space that is seemingly nonmaterial and has a qualitatively unique way of “knowing”).12Earlier discussion of unconscious did not use that term, but spoke, within philosophical, religious, or artistic frames, about a nonmaterial human dimension that lay outside conscious awareness and yet held important information and aspects essential for personal expansion. Such discussions were as early as Plato (5th century BC), through St. Augustine (4th century AD) and even Montaigne (1572/1958). Freud pioneered the development of a clinical methodology for studying how information is processed in the unconscious mental realm. He convincingly demonstrated that the unconscious has its own method of mentation and can direct behavior outside of one’s awareness (Freud, 1900, 1915, 1923, 1939). Westen (1999), among others, has delineated the scientific credibility of Freud’s clinical discoveries (Luborsky & Barrett, 2006; Shevrin, Bond, Brakel, Hertel, & Williams, 1996).
Beyond words: Conceptual framework for the study and practice of hypnotherapeutic imagery
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2022
In this section we seek to better understand how HTI makes meaningful contributions to the application of knowledge for problem-solving (i.e., a synthesized activation of higher cognitive systems with motivational systems toward some practical end). Thus, the architecture of unconscious intelligence necessarily involves implicit perception, learning, and cognition, which is organized by implicit attitudes, emotion, and goals in such a way as to construct increasingly complex problem-solving behavior. As summarized in modern research of unconscious processes – it seems that all of the higher cognitive functions that contribute to conscious awareness are also able operate in an unconscious mode (Bargh, 2017; Weinberger & Stoycheva, 2019).
Physiotherapists’ experiences of the meaning of movement quality in autism: a descriptive phenomenological study
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2022
Ingrid Bertilsson, Gunvor Gard, Catharina Sjödahl Hammarlund
Furthermore, the experience of participants in this study was that the ability to process sensory impressions was a prerequisite for conscious awareness, as has been reported previously (Zhu, Drewes, and Melcher, 2016). The lack of ability to mentalize and reflect, often present in autism, may lead to mainly concrete thinking (Bogdashina, 2017), which, in part, may also explain the difficulty of being consciously aware. This ability is essential to understanding body signals in order to develop the body identity (Gyllensten, Skär, Miller, and Gard, 2010) and bodily self-consciousness (Blanke, 2012). The ability to be consciously aware influences how intention and the meaning of actions are created (Skjaerven, Kristoffersen, and Gard, 2010).