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The Consciousness of Muscular Effort and Movement
Published in Max R. Bennett, The Idea of Consciousness, 2020
Finally, the stage is reached during evolution when collaterals are used to generate sensations, independent of any sensory input to the brain, as in Figure 4.12D. The cerebral sentient loop is now independent of the environment, and the experience of a sensation involves a positive act of issuing an appropriate outgoing signal from the brain. According to Humphrey, sensing is not a passive act but involves participating in the act of ‘sentition’. That is, sensing involves the issuing of an appropriate outgoing signal from the brain; a signal which was, in its first evolutionary appearance, associated with the motor system only. It is this process which Humphrey claims to be consciousness. Since these commands can be issued without any trigger from the environment it is possible to have a rich ‘stream of consciousness’ that is generated from within the brain itself.
Living language and the resonant self
Published in Anthony Korner, Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, 2020
The relation of self and value is crucial, reflecting the intimate connection between self and feeling. Differential processing of positive and negative affect greatly influences development of self, with the traumatic range of affective experience associated with developmental arrest and a constricted, “adualistic” sense of self (Meares & Lichtenberg, 1995; Meares, 1999a). In contrast, familiarity and warmth in personal experience facilitate individual development and differentiation at both psychological and neurological levels. The inner stream of consciousness is an essentially private experience, although it develops in the public space of personal relationships (Meares, 2005). From early in life, the child develops a repertoire of responses adapted to fit different relational configurations, seen by others as the individual’s identity, while simultaneously there is an emerging private experience, that of self (Meares, 2005). Personality consists of both identity and self.
The Use of Imagery in Alleviating Depression
Published in Anees A. Sheikh, Imagination and Healing, 2019
Fortunately, this onesidedness is gradually being counterbalanced. Aspects of the stream of consciousness have become legitimate areas of scientific research [3]. A new appreciation for the role of imaginal processes in learning [4], memory [4], and perception [5] has developed. The clinical implications of imaginal processes have become increasingly recognized [2, 6, 7], and numerous imagery techniques now are being used in the treatment of various medical and psychiatric disorders [2, 7–10].
Effects of psychosocial stress on prosociality: the moderating role of current life stress and thought control
Published in Stress, 2022
Lisa Hensel, Nicolas Rohleder, Cornelia Niessen
We assessed thought control as an individual ability, and manipulated thought control with a specific strategy. We assessed thought control ability with the TNT (Anderson & Green, 2001, see above). The participant’s recall rate for the baseline items minus his/her recall rate for the no-think items served as an indicator of thought control. Higher values indicate higher thought control ability. To manipulate the adoption of a thought control strategy, we asked individuals in the EG to think about a hobby or another leisure activity that they enjoy doing and with which they associate positive feelings (see Sonnentag & Niessen, 2020), and to take notes regarding their feelings and thoughts. In the CG, participants were instructed to follow their stream of consciousness and write down everything that entered their mind. At the end, we asked to what extent participants in both groups thought about their favorite hobby or leisure activity (manipulation check). Response anchors ranged on a 5-point Likert-type scale from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree.
The White Paper: Wilder Penfield, the Stream of Consciousness, and the Physiology of Mind
Published in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2019
Penfield’s view of the relationship of the brain and mind is easily stated: the attributes of the mind—consciousness, will, purposeful acts, language, memory, perception—were functions of the brain. These attributes were integrated into a theoretical functional unit whose anatomical substrate was the upper brainstem, thalami, and the cortex. This was the source of the stream of consciousness and the substrate of the physiology of mind. It is the place “to which messages come and from which messages depart after appropriate decisions are reached, decisions that are based upon memories of previous experience and influenced by present desires” (Penfield, 1950a, p. 58). Penfield, throughout his career, spoke of consciousness and the mind in the same breath, as functions of the CIS. Later in life, as he abandoned his quest to unite brain and mind, he continued to think that consciousness was an intrinsic function of the brainstem, but located the mind somewhere in the ether, outside the realm of physics. Nonetheless, he still thought that the mind received “energy” from the brain, and continued to express itself through the CIS.
Abstinence-Only: Are You Not Working the Program or Is the Program Not Working for You?
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2018
HEATHER SOPHIA LEE, Denalee O’Malley
For some clients the format of traditional treatments was not experienced as helpful. One client described her experience:I find it really unhelpful to be in a room where people introduce themselves briefly and then they kind of they just start, they start wherever they are, they talk about what’s going on with them and a lot of times listening to people talk can be just so incredibly it’s just this stream of consciousness that … I suppose it’s useful for the individual but I never really wanted to talk personally myself in these groups and so I didn’t really ever experience what it was like, whether that was helpful for me personally and I found to listen to other people would drive me crazy. (53-year-old, White female, private-practice client)