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Skin: Resilience
Published in Philip Berry, Necessary Scars, 2021
And, indeed, the strength of the spasms is reduced. She must be getting tired, I think. I stand over her and look into the taut muscles of her face. She is flushed. I prise open an eyelid, hoping that by doing this she will see me and respond. The eyelid slams shut once I release my finger. I lean close to her ear and talk loudly, ‘Susan, Susan, can you hear me?’ I know this is not useful. But I want to make a connection with the conscious mind I know is in there. We have been here nearly 25 minutes now, and I don’t want to give any more drugs.
The end of life – people's experiences
Published in Catherine Proot, Michael Yorke, Challenges and Choices for Patient, Carer and Professional at the End of Life, 2021
Catherine Proot, Michael Yorke
A younger and healthier person who has suffered a traumatic experience can, with some effect, manage the physical and psychological assaults which cause them fears. The memory which is committed to the deep subconscious is held successfully by iron gates and heavy padlocks. The conscious mind can spend a lifetime keeping that memory locked up and ‘safe’. As people get weaker, their defences against such assaults dwindle, and therefore the gates are forced open, and something of the force of the terrifying memory returns, raising great anxiety in the frailer person. The old trauma clearly still has its teeth. As the person begins the process of dying, their peace is disturbed, and the fears and stresses return. Such was the experience of Elaine. A woman in her forties, Elaine, seemed unable to die in spite of multiple organ failure. A psychologist noted the facts of her life and realised that she felt strongly that she had had a negative influence on her family and especially against her husband moving to higher office in his work. Elaine suffered profound subconscious guilt about this. The impact came as an addition to her fatal illness. The psychologist, after much thought and using his considerable experience, closed her subconscious negativity and she died peacefully four hours later.
Holistic Medicine: Possibilities and Challenges in Human Reproduction (Garbhsanskar)
Published in Anne George, Snigdha S. Babu, M. P. Ajithkumar, Sabu Thomas, Holistic Healthcare. Volume 2: Possibilities and Challenges, 2019
Tejal G. Joshi, Vrajeshkumar G. Khambholja
Understanding the mental body in detail, it is the place where our feelings, emotions, and desires stay. It’s accumulated from all previous birth and present birth too. It is made up of three parts: the conscious mind—it is the part of our thoughts and feelings that we are aware of, the subconscious mind—it contains all the impressions required to complete our destiny in current lifetime, and the unconscious mind—this is the aspect of our mind that we are completely unaware of. It contains all the impressions that are associated with our accumulated account.
Adaptive Experiential Theory of Hypnosis
Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2023
Cameron T. Alldredge, Gary R. Elkins
The third wave of understanding of the unconscious is integrated within Epstien’s CEST (Epstein, 1973, 1994, 2003). First introduced in 1973, this theory provided a new and more comprehensive understanding of unconscious processes. Integrating elements of the aforementioned primary process thinking with the cognitive unconscious, CEST uniquely identifies that the unconscious operates as an experiential system. The experiential system processes information automatically, rapidly, and effortlessly and is emotionally driven. In the experiential system, events are primarily represented “concretely and imagistically” (Epstein, 1994, p. 715). It is assumed to be “intimately associated with the experience of affect, including ‘vibes,’ a term referring to subtle feelings of which people are often unaware” (Epstein & Pacini, 1999, p. 463). Using thought, metaphors, narratives, scripts, prototypes, and images, it is able to generalize and respond to information. Being emotionally driven, the experiential system creates a vulnerability for irrational and conflictual behavior. In contrast, the conscious mind, or rational system, is characterized as deliberative, logical, and effortful and which operates primarily through the use of language. Because of this, individuals are most aware of the rational system during regular waking consciousness.
Oversimplifications and Misrepresentations in the Repressed Memory Debate: A Reply to Ross
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2023
Henry Otgaar, Olivier Dodier, Maryanne Garry, Mark L. Howe, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Steven Jay Lynn, Ivan Mangiulli, Richard J. McNally, Lawrence Patihis
Ross (2022) criticized skeptics for failing to distinguish between repression and dissociation of a memory. Using spatial metaphors, he affirmed that repression implies “horizontal splitting” whereby a memory is pushed downward into the unconscious mind, whereas dissociation implies “vertical splitting” whereby a memory is sequestered sideways into a fragmented region of the conscious mind. For example, Ross (2022) claimed the following: Recovered memories in dissociative identity disorder are continuous memories that have never been repressed into the unconscious. When the host personality remembers them, what has happened is a continuous memory from one compartment in the conscious mind to another compartment in the conscious mind (p. xx).
Quantitative metrics and psychometric scales in the visual art and medical education literature: a narrative review
Published in Medical Education Online, 2022
The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) was developed in 2003 by University of Rochester psychologists Richard Ryan and Kirk Brown to assesses dispositional mindfulness, which is the ability to be aware of and pay attention to the present moment[55]. Brown and Ryan reinforce that mindfulness is a measure of consciousness distinct from other forms of mental processing, such as cognition or emotion. Consciousness, and by extension mindfulness, requires an awareness of the inner and outer environment coupled with a focused attention of one’s conscious mind. The 15-item questionnaire is scored on a Likert Scale and it includes statements such as ‘I tend not to notice feelings of physical tension or discomfort until they really grab my attention.’[55] The MAAS was used in a visual arts and medicine study of third year medical students[24].