The word Reincarnation in the Psychological Literature
1987 to 1995
Of 30 abstracts of papers appearing in the Psychological literature in the nine years from 1987 to 1995 containing references to Reincarnation, sixteen have been listed here. (No others were found in some 600 medical and psychological journals.) They may be of interest to students who have an interest in the spread of the idea, and who are students of the spread of ideas generally. It may be noted that, in the abstracts at least, Karma is referred to only once. (Three of the 30 abstracts have been relegated to the end as being of lesser interest.)
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TI: The pragmatics of empathy.
AU: Gedo,-John-E.
JN: Annual-of-Psychoanalysis; 1995 Vol 23
1-12
AB: There has been no disagreement within psychoanalysis
about the essential role of empathy in accomplishing the goals of
analysis. It is not uncommon, however, to encounter statements in the
literature equating empathy with the acceptance without demurral of the
subjective viewpoint of the analysand. It is not obvious how
psychoanalysts should conduct themselves "empathically." Questions
about how to be effectively empathic become relevant with analysands
who develop an archaic transference wherein the analyst is experienced
as the reincarnation of a traumatically unempathic caretaker of early
childhood. An analyst's responses, when guided by true and accurate
empathy, are not necessarily nice, warm, or gentle. Analysts are often
reluctant to intervene forcefully, believing such behavior to
contravene the principle of neutrality. It is necessary to set limits
and stop patients from dictating what must
(or must not) occur in analysis.
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TI: The healing power of the unconscious: How can we understand past
life experiences in psychotherapy?
AU: Knight,-Zelda
JN: South-African-Journal-of-Psychology; 1995 Jun Vol 25(2) 90-98
AB: Reviews 68 studies, published 1956-1993, on past-life experiences,
or regression, in the context of psychotherapy. Three explanations for
the phenomenon are considered: past lives may be viewed as fantasy or
cryptoamnesia, as material from the collective unconscious, or as
reincarnation. A perspective that approaches past lives as an
expression of the many subpersonalities within the psyche that are
dramatized and emerge as stories or other selves is discussed for its
therapeutic value. (Afrikaans abstract)
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TI: Belief in reincarnation and locus of control.
AU:
Alprin,-Lurene; Lester,-David
JN: Psychological-Reports; 1995
Jun Vol 76(3, Pt 1) 1018
AB: Explored whether belief in
reincarnation was associated with the
personality measure locus of control. Rotter's Internal-External Locus
of
Control Scale and a questionnaire about beliefs was given to 83 college
undergraduates (mean age 25.7 yrs). Results indicate that an external
locus
of control was associated with belief in reincarnation but not with a
general
belief in life after death.
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TI: Death symbolism in matrilineal societies: A replication study.
AU: Matlock,-James-G.
JN:
Cross-Cultural-Research-The-Journal-of-Comparative-Social-Science; 1995
May Vol 29(2) 158-177
AB: Attempted for a 2nd time to
replicate findings of a cross-cultural study by S. Somersan (see PA,
Vol 72:1050) of ancestral spirit, afterlife, and reincarnation beliefs
in relation to descent groups. Somersan found
significance on 4 tests and described a pattern of death symbolism that
seemed to typify matrilineal societies as compared with nonmatrilineal
ones.
The replication sample had only 2 matrilineal societies, which were
grouped
together with 4 societies with double descent for analysis. The
methodology
and coding rules used by Somersan were followed closely. None of
Somersan's
findings was supported. An alternative hypothesis, contrasting
unilineal
and bilateral societies' beliefs in ancestral spirits and
reincarnation,
was supported.
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TI: Anomalies
of consciousness: Indian perspectives and research.
AU:
Rao,-K.-Ramakrishna
JN: Journal-of-Parapsychology; 1994 Jun
Vol 58(2) 149-187
AB: Reviews Indian literature on
parapsychological phenomena (PP) to
interpret traditional PP ideas in the context of scientific research.
The
beginnings of systematic studies and field studies (including
spontaneous
case studies of possession, near-death experiences, miracle makers, and
reincarnation) are described. Laboratory psi research on topics such as
personality and ESP; differential effect and ESP in life settings;
meditation,
subliminal perception, and psi; and cognitive variables are also
discussed.
In the Indian tradition, PP are regarded as normal manifestations of
the
mind functioning independently of the sensorimotor processes. Indian
researchers
have made important contributions to advance parapsychology, including
the
provision of significant evidence for a strong relationship between ESP
scores and personality factors (such as neuroticism) and between the
practice
of meditation and psi scoring.
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TI: Past lives and hypnosis. 9th National Convention of Australian
Hypnotherapists (1994, Sydney, Australia).
AU: Ramster,-Peter
JN: Australian-Journal-of-Clinical-Hypnotherapy-and-Hypnosis; 1994 Sep
Vol 15(2) 67-91
AB: Discusses the study of past life (PL)
therapy, the theory of reincarnation, and the use of hypnosis in the
recall of PL memories. Two case studies are presented to illustrate a
method involving the alternation of hypnosis and the waking state to
recall memories of people, events, places, and emotions. It is argued
that if the theory of reincarnation is true, the ramifications for
psychology and behavioral therapy are significant. (0 ref)
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TI: Replication studies of cases suggestive of
reincarnation by three independent investigators.
AU:
Mills,-Antonia; Haraldsson,-Erlendur; Keil,-H.-H.-Jurgen
IN:
U Virginia, Anthropology Dept, Div of Personality Studies,
Charlottesville, US
JN:
Journal-of-the-American-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1994 Jul
Vol 88(3) 207-219
AB: Investigated 3 replications of I.
Stevenson's studies, at his request, of children who are reported to
remember a previous, unrelated life. In one, 60 cases in Burma,
Thailand, and Turkey were studied; in the 2nd, 25 cases in Sri Lanka
were reviewed; and in the 3rd, 38 cases in India were assessed. From a
combined sample of 123 cases, 1 case from each group is presented
in detail, with each case representing an instance in which a high
degree
of correspondence was found between the child's recollections and the
characteristics of a deceased person unknown to the child or the
family. It is concluded
that in some of the cases, the children had no normal way of knowing
about
the person with whom they identified themselves. Attention is drawn to
problem areas to be overcome in future studies and the hope that
further research may lead to a better understanding of the dynamics of
child development.
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TI: / The development of
children's concepts of death.
AU: Nakamura,-Teruko
IN: Educational Counseling Ctr of the Board of Education, Chofu City,
Japan
JN: Japanese-Journal-of-Developmental-Psychology; 1994
Jun Vol 5(1) 61-71
AB: Studied age differences in theories
and views on death and reincarnation. Human Ss: 205 normal male and
female Japanese preschool and schoolage children and adolescents (aged
3-13 yrs). Nine questions were posed in individual interviews. Ss'
understanding of the meaning and inevitability of death, ability
to distinguish between actual death and make-believe death, and beliefs
and
concepts regarding reincarnation were examined. (English abstract)
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TI: reincarnation beliefs among near-death
experiencers.
AU: Wells,-Amber-D.
IN: U
Connecticut, US
JN: Journal-of-Near-Death-Studies; 1993 Fal
Vol 12(1) 17-34
AB: Several researchers have found that
near-death experiences (NDEs) tend to increase belief in reincarnation.
This study examined factors underlying this belief shift. The author
used a questionnaire to compare the tendency toward belief in
reincarnation among 43 near death experiencers (NDERs),
34 individuals merely interested in NDEs, and 30 nonexperiencer,
noninterest controls. In addition, 14 NDERs were interviewed to gain
insight into factors influencing NDERs' beliefs. NDERs' reincarnation
belief shift appeared to be due to (1) direct knowledge of
reincarnation gained by some NDERs in
the NDE itself, (2) knowledge of reincarnation gained through a general
psychic awakening following the NDE, or (3) exploration of alternative
perceptions of reality following the NDE.
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30
TI: Prevalence and correlates of New Age beliefs in six
Protestant denominations.
AU: Donahue,-Michael-J.
IN: Search Inst, Minneapolis, MN, US
JN:
Journal-for-the-Scientific-Study-of-Religion; 1993 Jun Vol 32(2)
177-184
AB: A nationwide sample of 561 congregations
representing 6 Protestant denominations found that only 7.9% of
respondents endorsed specific New
Age beliefs such as astrology and reincarnation. In contrast,
attitudinal
statements supportive of New Age ideologies were endorsed by nearly
one-third
of the respondents. Southern Baptists were particularly low in their
endorsement of New Age beliefs and attitudes; no denomination was
particularly high.
These beliefs and attitudes apparently were unrelated to other measures
of religiousness, satisfaction with one's present congregation or
denomination,
and most demographic variables, except for a negative relation between
education
and both astrology and the belief that "all spiritual truth is within
me."
These beliefs were more common among theological liberals.
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TI: The problem of student involvement in the
mermaid cult: A variety of belief in reincarnation (Ogba Nje) in a
Nigerian secondary school.
AU: Ebigbo,-Peter-O.;
Anyaegbuna,-B.
IN: U Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Nigeria
JN: Journal-of-African-Psychology; 1988 Vol 1(1) 1-14
AB:
Examined 600 pupils in a Nigerian secondary school who complained of
the "Ogba Nje" or pathological form of reincarnation. Ss were studied
during psychotherapy and by direct interview. They believed in a
Mermaid with
a group of members who attended meetings with her in the water while
they
slept. Ss dreamed of snakes, water, bridges and believed the water
spirit fed on blood and also gave it to her members. Ss offered gifts
to people to
entice them to join the group and cause accidents to spill blood. They
engaged
in sexual intercourse in the imagined spirit world. Ss were usually
quiet
and had problems, such as poverty, social isolation, and fear. Therapy
succeeded
if the belief system was ignored and the underlying problem was
discussed
or resolved. (French abstract)
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TI: Commentary on the Akolkar and Stevenson reports.
AU:
Anderson,-Rodger-I.
JN:
Journal-of-the-American-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1992 Jul
Vol 86(3) 249-256
AB: Comments on the reports of V. V.
Akolkar (see PA, Vol 80:4418) and I. Stevenson (1984) of a case of
xenoglossy in a 32-yr-old Indian woman.
The agreement between the reports shows how the case lends itself to a
reincarnation explanation and indicate how difficult it is to dismiss
the case as due to deceit, cryptomnesia, or malobservation.
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TI: Search for Sharada: Report of a case
and its investigation.
AU: Akolkar,-V.-V.
JN:
Journal-of-the-American-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1992 Jul
Vol 86(3) 209-247
AB: Presents the case of Uttara Huddar, a
Marathi-speaking woman of India who began at the age of 32 yrs to
undergo alterations of personality during which she claimed to be a
young Bengali woman named Sharada. At these times she spoke fluent
Bengali and behaved as if she were a Bengali woman of the early 19th
century. She also seemed mystified by modern ways and made several
verified statements about a family who had lived at that time.
Investigations showed that although Huddar had learned to read some
Bengali, this did not amount to proficiency; much less could it explain
her ability to speak the language. Although it is atypical of
reincarnation-type cases, in most of which the S is a young child,
reincarnation, rather than extrasensory cognition or possession, seems
the most satisfactory interpretation of this case.
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TI: Art imitates life: Deja vu
experiences in prose and poetry.
AU: Sno,-Herman-N.;
Linszen,-Don-H.; de-Jonghe,-Frans
IN: Academic Medical Ctr,
Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
JN:
British-Journal-of-Psychiatry; 1992 Apr Vol 160 511-518
AB:
Reviews over 20 literary descriptions that are consistent with the data
obtained from psychiatric literature, including various
phenomenological, etiological, and psychopathogenetic aspects of the
deja vu experience.
The explanations, explicitly formulated by creative authors, include
reincarnation, dreams, organic factors, and unconscious memories. Not
infrequently, an association with defense or organic factors is
demonstrable on the basis of psychoanalytic or clinical psychiatric
interpretation. Psychiatrists are
encouraged to overstep the limits of psychiatric literature and read
prose
and poetry as well.
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TI:
Belief in the paranormal and religious belief among American college
students.
AU: Duncan,-David-F.; Donnelly,-J.-William;
Nicholson,-Thomas
IN: Operation Interface, Carbondale, IL, US
JN: Psychological-Reports; 1992 Feb Vol 70(1) 15-18
AB: 267
university students (aged 18-50 yrs) completed a survey of beliefs
about the paranormal. Protestants were more likely to believe in the
Devil, possession by the Devil, and witches, but less likely to believe
in reincarnation or haunted houses. Catholics were more likely to
believe in astrology. Ss whose religion was important to them were less
likely to believe in the Devil, possession by the Devil, astrology,
ESP, or reincarnation. Overall, neither
the Ss' religious faith nor self-reported religiosity were associated
with
beliefs in the paranormal.
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TI: Three conjectured features of reincarnation-type cases in North
India: Responses of persons unfamiliar with actual cases.
AU:
Pasricha,-Satwant
IN: Bangalore U, National Inst of Mental
Health & Neurosciences,
India
JN:
Journal-of-the-American-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1990 Jul
Vol 84(3) 227-233
AB: Compared responses of 46 informants in
India who had had no direct contact with a case of the reincarnation
type with features found in actual cases with regard to 3 questions.
These questions pertained to 3 recurrent features of cases: the age at
first speaking about a previous life, the
age at spontaneously stopping to speak about a previous life, and the
mode
of death (violent or natural) associated with recall of a previous
life.
The ages estimated by the respondents were significantly higher than
those
found in actual cases for both starting as well as stopping to speak
spontaneously about the previous life. A violent mode of death,
however, was reported
frequently by the respondents to be associated with recall of a
previous
life. This accords with the findings in actual cases.
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TI: Secondary identity enactments during hypnotic
past-life regression: A sociocognitive perspective.
AU:
Spanos,-Nicholas-P.; Menary,-Evelyn; Gabora,-Natalie-J.;
DuBreuil,-Susan-C.; et-al
IN: Carleton U, Ottawa, ON, Canada
JN: Journal-of-Personality-and-Social-Psychology; 1991 Aug Vol 61(2)
308-320
AB: In 4 studies, Ss received hypnotic suggestions to
regress beyond
birth to a previous life. In Study 1, the development of a past-life
identity was unrelated to indexes of psychopathology. Studies 2 and 3
demonstrated that Ss developed past-life identities that reflected
hypnotist-transmitted expectations. In Study 4, the credibility that Ss
assigned to their past-life experiences was influenced by whether the
hypnotist defined such experiences as real or imagined. Combined data
from the first 3 studies indicated that hypnotizability predicted the
subjective intensity of past-life experiences but not the credibility
assigned to these experiences. Alternatively, beliefs, attitudes, and
expectations concerning reincarnation predicted the degree of
credibility assigned to these experiences. Implications of these
findings are discussed.
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TI:
Belief in the paranormal: A New Zealand survey.
AU:
Clarke,-Dave
IN: Massey U, Palmerston North, New Zealand
JN: Journal-of-the-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1991 Apr Vol 57(823)
412-425
AB: Examined belief in paranormal phenomena among
1,048 university students (aged 16-68 yrs). Over half of the Ss
indicated belief in telepathy, precognition, and life after death. Over
30% also expressed belief in clairvoyance, astrology, biorhythms, body
auras, astral projection, flying saucers/unidentified flying objects
(UFOs), psychic healing, and ghosts. The beliefs were examined in
relation to gender, age, conservatism, and religiosity. Women were
stronger than men on religiosity and expressed greater belief than men
in ESP, life after death, astral projection, astrology, psychic
healing, and reincarnation. Men had stronger belief in flying
saucers/UFOs. Factor analysis revealed 3 independent dimensions
comprising belief in the paranormal: psi-related belief, traditional
religious belief, and extraordinary life forms.
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TI: Psychic experiences in the multinational human
values study: Who
reports them?
AU: Haraldsson,-Erlendur; Houtkooper,-Joop-M.
IN: U Iceland, Faculty of Social Science, Reykjavik, Iceland
JN: Journal-of-the-American-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1991 Apr
Vol 85(2) 145-165
AB: Three items on personal psychic
experiences (PEs), telepathy, clairvoyance, and contact with the dead,
were included in a survey on human values that was conducted on 18,607
adults from 13 countries in Europe and from the US. In Europe, the
percentage of Ss reporting telepathy was 34%; clairvoyance was reported
by 21%, and 25% reported contact with dead. Percentages for the US were
54%, 25%, and 30%, respectively. There were great national differences.
There was little or no effect of education and age on reports of PEs,
but there were striking effects of sex, marital status, reports of
positive and negative affects, and several other variables. There was
no response bias effect. After national differences, variables best
predicting PE were sum of affect and belief in reincarnation.
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TI: Elevated, specific temporal lobe signs
in a population engaged in psychic studies.
AU:
Persinger,-M.-A.; Fisher,-Susan-D.
IN: Laurentian U of
Sudbury, Neuroscience Lab, ON, Canada
JN:
Perceptual-and-Motor-Skills; 1990 Dec Vol 71(3, Pt 1) 817-818
AB: 20 female members (aged 24-65 yrs) of a psychic group who reported
frequent subjective psi experiences and endorsed exotic beliefs (e.g.,
belief in reincarnation) displayed significantly higher incidence of
temporal lobe signs than did 61 same-age university women. Findings
were based on responses to a personal philosophy inventory.
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TI: An unusual case of hypnotic regression
with some unexplained contents.
AU: Tarazi,-Linda
JN: Journal-of-the-American-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1990 Oct
Vol 84(4) 309-344
AB: Discusses the hypnotic technique of
past-life regression, in particular the case of a woman and her
obsession with a past life as Antonia in 16th century Spain. In an
effort to rid the S of her obsession, which caused her to neglect the
people and activities of her current life, the author attempted to
discount the reality of the past life by finding errors in the story.
After verifying hundreds of detailed facts in English and Spanish
texts,
and through trips to Spain, the Caribbean, and North Africa, no errors
were
found. Explanations offered for the past-life experience include
psychodynamic factors, fraud, cryptomnesia, role playing, dissociation
or multiple personality, genetic memory, racial memory, clairvoyance,
precognition, retrocognition, telepathy, mediumship, possession, and
reincarnation.
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TI:
Experiences with psychotherapy training in India. 14th International
Congress of Medical Psychotherapy: Training in medical psychotherapy:
Cross-cultural diversity (1988, Lausanne, Switzerland).
AU:
Hoch,-Erna-M.
JN: Psychotherapy-and-Psychosomatics; 1990 Vol
53(1-4) 14-20
AB: On the basis of 32 yrs of psychiatric
experience in India, the author shows how difficulties encountered not
only in psychotherapy with Indian patients but also in supervision of
candidates in training for psychotherapy can be related to specific
cultural patterns of personality development and social intercourse
and, beyond this, traced back to their deeper roots in the traditional
Indian world view, as represented by the ancient Hindu scriptures. The
lack of an anthropocentric orientation, the discouragement of egoistic
and individualistic strivings, and the doctrine of karma and
reincarnation, all essential elements of traditional Hindu philosophy
and all pointing to
an ultimate reality that goes beyond anything that speech or thought
can reach,
leave very little to work on for someone approaching a traditional
Indian
scene with the tools and methods of Western psychotherapy.
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TI: Response to "Over the border": The
nonreification of "self."
AU: Porter-Steele,-Nancy
JN: Transactional-Analysis-Journal; 1990 Jan Vol 20(1) 56-59
AB: Comments on the article by S. van Beekum and W. Lammers (see PA,
Vol 78:16140) and stresses that the explanation therapists use to work
with a client in "past-life" therapy may possibly solidify the client's
suffering if such an explanation solidifies "self." The article by van
Beekum and Lammers presents reincarnation from points of view that do
propose some notion of
ongoing self. Use of a theory that assumes past-life experience is
fantasy,
metaphor, or in some other way not historical is suggested.
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TI: Compensations posthumes: Deux
pratiques de mort volontaire en Siberie. / Posthumous compensation: Two
types of self-inflicted death in Siberia. 19th Meeting of the Group for
the Study and Prevention of Suicide: Life events and suicide attempts
(1987, Clermont-Ferrand, France).
AU: Hamayon,-Roberte
IN: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Religieuses,
Paris, France
JN: Psychologie-Medicale; 1988 Mar Vol 20(3)
439-440
AB: Discusses 2 accepted forms of self-inflicted
death in Siberia that derive from the notion that reincarnation is
possible within a family grouping: (1) in hunting, suicide as
compensation for the game killed and (2) in pastoral life, suicide as a
form of individual expression and vengeance. (English
abstract)
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TI: Can children be
stopped from speaking about previous lives? Some
further analyses of features in cases of the reincarnation type.
AU: Stevenson,-Ian; Chadha,-N.-K.
IN: U Virginia Health
Sciences Ctr, Dept of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry Div of
Personality Studies, Charlottesville, US
JN:
Journal-of-the-Society-for-Psychical-Research; 1990 Jan Vol 56(818)
82-90
AB: Analysis of data from 274 reincarnation-type cases
revealed no significant correlation between (1) S's age at first
speaking and the age of the previous personality (PP) at death or the
length of the interval between death and birth, (2) the PP's age at
death and the interval between death and birth, and (3) the number of
different statements the S made about the previous
life (PL) and the duration of speaking about it. In 41% of the cases,
parents
took measures to suppress the children from talking about PLs. However,
there
was no significant difference between the use of such measures and the
duration of the child's speaking about the PL. Possible parental roles
in the propagation of ideas of reincarnation are discussed.
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TI: A preliminary investigation of cases
of reincarnation among the Beaver and Gitksan Indians.
AU:
Mills,-Antonia
IN: U Virginia School of Medicine, Div of
Personality Studies, US
JN: Anthropologica; 1988 Vol 30(1)
23-59
AB: Describes belief in and reported cases of
reincarnation among 2 Native Canadian groups, the Beaver and the
Gitksan Indians, and provides examples in which a child identified as a
particular person was said to have returned. Group differences in
beliefs (e.g., belief in cross-sex reincarnation among the Beaver,
multiple reincarnation of one person among the Gitksan) are
cited as examples of cultural conditioning. Belief in reincarnation
characterized shamanic cultures in general and was maintained in many
agricultural societies. The role of such case-oriented research within
the discipline of anthropology is discussed. (French abstract)
30 of 30
TI: Analisis tematico de los delirios
endogenos. (Thematic analysis of endogenous deliria.) XVII National
Congress of the Spanish Psychiatric Society (1987, Pamplona, Spain).
AU: Sarro,-Ramon
IN: Facultad de Medicina, Barcelona, Spain
JN: Revista-de-Psiquiatria-y-Psicologia-Medica; 1987 Apr-Jun Vol 18(2)
65-79
AB: Interviewed patients with endogenous deliria.
Against the opinions of a large number of psychiatrists and
psychologists, the present author
emphasizes the importance of delirious utterances, not only as symptoms
of
specific psychiatric disorders but also as human documents. Based on 50
case
histories, endogenous deliria were categorized according to their broad
themes
(e.g., end-of-the-world experience; ontological transformations of
human
life; reincarnation; New Age themes; immortality of the human race;
interhuman
aggression; creation of symbols; cosmogony). It is concluded that the
psychiatrist
as homo sapiens must understand the utterances of homo demens,
listening to his/her patients instead of silencing them with
psychodrugs. (0 ref)
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TI: The dimensions of
computing. 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in
Psychology (1991, San Francisco, California).
AU:
Vaughan,-Jonathan
IN: Hamilton Coll, Clinton, NY, US
JN: Behavior-Research-Methods,-Instruments-and-Computers; 1992 May Vol
24(2) 109-115
AB: Discusses computing as it is used in
psychological research, from the perspectives of the temporal, spatial,
economic, and social dimensions. Progress made over the 20 yrs since
the computer first made its presence felt
in the discipline of psychology is examined, and speculations are made
about
what is to be expected in the years to come. Fractal growth of
computing systems
resulting from the successive rotations of the "wheel of reincarnation"
is
illustrated. The wheel of reincarnation describes the evolution of
increasingly sophisticated peripheral devices.
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TI: History, 1924 to 1972, of the Division of
Consulting Psychology.
Special Issue: Centennial issue--Learning from our history.
AU: Rigby,-W.-K.
JN:
Consulting-Psychology-Journal-Practice-and-Research; 1992 Sum Vol 44(2)
2-8
AB: The antecedents, initial organization, early demise,
and eventual reincarnation of the Division of Consulting Psychology of
the American Psychological Association are reviewed briefly, with
further attention given to the developments from 1946 to 1972. The
historical uncertainty and lack of agreement in regard to the
definition and distinctive characteristics of consultative activities
are noted, and a descriptive definition of a consulting psychologist is
suggested which differentiates consultation from direct "prime mover"
activities.
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TI: Souvenir et
memoire une etude clinique de l'oubli. (Recollection
and memory: A clinical study of forgetting.)
AU:
Morizot,-Jean-Louis
IN: Service Local de Psychologie
Appliquee de la Region Maritine Mediterannee, Toulon Naval, France
JN: Psychologie-Medicale; 1990 Nov Vol 22(13) 1351-sup-1353
AB: Distinguishes between the function of memory and its product,
recollection, or its absence, which is called forgetting (or oblivion).
Oblivion is a configuration of death: loss of recollection, loss of
consciousness and knowledge. Memory, in contrast, opens up toward a
dimension of eternity, recalling the belief in metempsychosis, or
reincarnation of soul. As a study field, memory and
its disorders are situated at the interface of neurology and
psychiatry.
Memory is a relational function of psychic life where recollections and
things forgotten have the value of parapraxes. Psychotherapy, which
leads to rememoration of recollections, cures through oblivion of
traumas. (0
ref) (English abstract)