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Questioning the Reliability of Mystical States: Identifying Features
Published in Andrew C. Papanicolaou, A Scientific Assessment of the Validity of Mystical Experiences, 2021
I said “affective glow” to convey the fact that even the affective features of the mystical state are noetic in nature and have very little, if anything, in common with ordinary pleasures and ordinary pains and terrors. Terror, fear, stress of discomfort in general is clearly not among the positive affects, noetic or otherwise. And, although it is not met with, in most mystical states, it appears frequently enough to deserve consideration. It used to be much more common in the past in cases where the set and the setting, that is, the personality of the mystic and the context of the mystical experience were not carefully considered. It is less frequent now, especially in drug-facilitated states attained in the context of controlled clinical studies. Nevertheless, it persists.
Oxidative stress and pre-eclampsia
Published in Pankaj Desai, Pre-eclampsia, 2020
As children, since the time that we are taught about the goodness, usefulness and life-promoting characteristics of oxygen, we develop a great respect, bordering on veneration for oxygen. It is only when we go for higher studies, we realize that oxygen is not universally kind to everyone and every matter on earth. Even to human beings, it can be devastating. Our white blood cells use oxygen to kill invading bacteria. For those bacteria, oxygen is a killing agent. That oxygen is fundamentally toxic often comes as a surprise to those of us who find it so friendly to our well-being. To other things, it is a terror. It is what turns butter rancid and makes iron rust. Even we as humans can only tolerate it up to a point. The oxygen level in our cells is only about a tenth the level found in the atmosphere. If oxygen levels rise beyond the permissible limits, which it usually does at the cost of carbon dioxide, alarm bells start ringing. This is why anaesthesiologists who administer anaesthesia for endoscopy measures carbon dioxide with monitors; they not only want carbon dioxide in the human body but that at permissible levels, never letting it fall to low levels, because falling levels also means rising oxygen.
Stress From a Different Perspective
Published in William Steele, Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout, 2019
Once again when I’ve conducted trainings with your peers across the country and asked them what two feelings best described the term terror, they often identify symptoms, such as being unable to forget, having intrusive memories and recollections or unable to relax, to mention a few. These reactions are associated with PTSD/STS yet fail to capture the overall experience that fuels these reactions. What survivors have described to me over and over again is that their terror caused them to feel unsafe and powerless to do anything about their situation. (Feeling unsafe can include feeling physically unsafe and emotionally unsafe.)
Later Life as a Daring Experience: Factors Associated with Older Adults’ Risk Perception
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2023
Rinat Lifshitz, Yaacov G. Bachner, Galit Nimrod
Results of the two regression analyses are presented in Table 2. In the first hierarchical multiple regression with terror risk perception as the dependent variable, personal background characteristics were entered in the first block into the equation. Two variables emerged as significant predictors of terror risk perception: self-rated health (β = −.153, t = −2.803, p < .01) and place of residence (β =.275, t = 5.034, p < .001). The model explained a modest percentage (9.8%) of the observed variance and was found to be significant, F (2, 303) = 16.441, p < .001. Depressive symptoms were entered into the equation in the second block. This resulted in a significant change in R2 (∆R2 = 5.4%). Together, the variables in the equation explained 15.2% of the observed variance, F (5, 300) = 11.601, p < .001. Depressive symptoms emerged as significant predictors of terror risk perception (β =.253, t = 4.391, p < .001). Life satisfaction was entered in the third block, and internet use for task performance was entered in the fourth block. These steps did not result in significant changes in R2.
Health Bias in Clinical Work with Older Adult Clients: The Relation with Ageism and Aging Anxiety
Published in Clinical Gerontologist, 2022
Grace I. L. Caskie, Shannon L. Patterson, Abigail R. Voelkner
Gaining a better understanding of why individuals hold ageist beliefs may help to improve geropsychology training and reduce professional biases and concerns about therapeutic process issues. Previous studies with clinical psychology trainees (Lee et al., 2003) and undergraduate students (Allan & Johnson, 2009; Barnett & Adams, 2018; Boswell, 2012; Schwartz & Simmons, 2001) identified aging anxiety as a factor in explaining ageist attitudes and behaviors. Several studies found direct relationships between higher levels of aging anxiety and more negative attitudes toward older adults and aging (Harris & Dollinger, 2001; Wisdom et al., 2014. Aging anxiety is distinct from other types of anxiety in that it is centered on the anticipation of losses during the aging process (Boswell, 2012; Lasher & Faulkender, 1993). Terror Management Theory (Martens, Goldenberg, & Greenberg, 2005) stipulates that anxiety about aging, and death in particular, can result in individuals distancing themselves from older adults to cope with these concerns. However, no known studies have explicitly linked aging anxiety to mental health trainees’ perceptions of older adult clients. We hypothesized that greater aging anxiety would relate to trainees rating potential clinical work with an older adult client more negatively and that aging anxiety would magnify any differences based on older adult health status.
Biko’s Black Conscious Thought Is Useful for Extirpating the Fear of Whites Deposited in Black Masculinity
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2021
To be clear, the White man must defend himself because he has made the Black man into a beast, he imagines him as an animal, as violent. It is in his Whitened psyche that he is terrorized, but also because he feels threatened because of the material possession—for instance, the land—that he has stolen. Obviously, this is projected terror. The oppressor displaces his violence onto the oppressed. Some critical scholars of race have argued that in apartheid South Africa, “Fear possibly underpinned residentially-based segregation [and] despite the many different forms of material separation and segregation, the phantasmatic threat of men remained omnipresent, even in (particularly in) the most private recesses” (Shefer & Ratele, 2011, p. 32). White fears get generated in response to those Black men who have been constructed as threatening objects to White subjects.