The Dream Drugstore Chemically Altered States of Consciousness 1st Edition by Allan Hobson ISBN 978-0262582209 0262582201
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ISBN 10: 0262582201
ISBN 13: 978-0262582209
Author: J. Allan Hobson
An investigation into the brain’s chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness.
In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain’s natural equilibrium.
Hobson explains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal states of consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presents striking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects on consciousness interacts with the brain’s own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called “The Medical Drugstore,” Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raise and lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. He discusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorders caused by indiscriminate long-term use. In “The Recreational Drugstore,” Hobson discusses psychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding “Psychological Drugstore,” he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.
Table of contents:
I The Scope and Shape of Conscious States
1 Consciousness and Brain Science
2 Pushing the Envelope: How States of Consciousness Alter
3 Waking and Dreaming: The Polestars of Our Stately Cosmos
II Beyond Psychoanalysis: Toward a Neurodynamic Theory of Mental States
4 The Neurodynamics of Dreaming
5 The Neurodynamics of Dissociation, Hypnosis, and Autosuggestion
III Normal and Abnormal Alterations of Consciousness
6 The Brain-Mind and Its Conscious States
7 Models of Conscious State Alteration
8 Sleep and Dream Disorders
9 Brain Dysfunctions that Alter Consciousness
IV The Medical Drugstore
10 The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life: Drugs for Anxiety and Sleep
11 Regulating Mood: The MAOIs, Tricyclics, and SSRIs
12 Psychosis and Antipsychosis: Opening and Shutting the Dream Drugstore
V The Recreational Drugstore
13 Good Trips and Bad: The Psychedelics
14 Feeling No Pain: The Narcotics
15 From Cult to Laboratory: Mushrooms, Cactus Buttons, and Coca Leaves
VI The Psychological Drugstore
16 Treatment Implications: Changing the Brain by Changing the Mind
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