12: Investigating Altered States of Consciousness on Their Own Terms: State-Specific Sciences

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Contributors xi
5. 1: An Introduction to Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness 1
6. Part 1A: Combining First- and Third-Person Methods
7. 2: Current Methods of Investigation in Neuroscience 19
8. 3: The Experimental Investigation of Unconscious Conflict, Unconscious Affect, and Unconscious Signal Anxiety 33
9. 4: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to Contemporary Neuroscience 67
10. Part 1B: Re-examining the Scope and Limits of First-Person Methods
11. 5: Phenomenological Approaches to the Study of Conscious Awareness 99
12. 6: The Gesture of Awareness: An Account of its Structural Dynamics 121
13. Part 1C: Changing Conscious Experience
14. 7: Transforming Conscious Experience 139
15. 8: Clinical implications of an intersubjective science 167
16. 9: The Nature and Transformation of Consciousness in Eastern and Western Psychospiritual Traditions 193
17. Part 2: Maps of Consciousness Studies
18. 10: Modern Science and the Mind 215
19. 11: Social Construction and Consciousness 233
20. 12: Investigating Altered States of Consciousness on Their Own Terms: State-Specific Sciences 255
21. 13: Methods are a Message 279
22. 14: An integral approach to consciousness research: a proposal for integrating first, second, and third person approaches to consciousness 301
23. 15: A Psychologist ’s Map of Consciousness Studies 333
24. Name Index 359
25. Subject Index 367