States of Consciousness Models for Psychology and Psychotherapy /

• Main Author: Kokoszka, Andrzej (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Health psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Health Psychology.

Consciousness has always been a particularly elusive concept and one vigorously argued in the scientific community. This new volume takes on the task of defining normal and altered consciousness in their most relevant clinical terms. In States of Consciousness, Andrzej Kokoszka expands on the pionee...

Table of Contents:

• General Presumptions and Concepts Referring to Consciousness and Its Altered States
• Theoretical Inspirations
• The Variety of Subjective Experience
• Research on Altered States of Consciousness
• Models of the States of Consciousness and Information Metabolism
• Applications and Extensions of the Models
• Information Metabolism in the Framework of Exact Sciences
• Metabolism of Information as a Model for Multiaxial Psychotherapeutic Diagnosis.