Psychology 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Synesthesia, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Anesthetic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

Document Summary

Shamanism: practice in which a person deliberately alters their consciousness for the purpose of interacting with spirits in order to serve the community in which they find themselves. Ignition: marked by ordeals of death and rebirth. Neophytes: often isolated from society, subjected to deprivation and experience exhaustion, suffering and symbolic death, resulting (apparently) in access to another realm of existence. Schizophrenia: psychological condition characterized by disorganized speech and behaviour. As well as psychotic symptoms; hallucination and delusions. Positive symptoms: an excess or distortion of normal function. Negative symptoms: may be a diminution or loss of normal functions loss of emotional expression, thinking, speech or initiation of goal directed behaviour. Phenomenological mapping: (roger walsh) experiences in different states of consciousness can be compared along a number of dimensions: shamans have good control over entering and leaving altered states and some control over the contents of that state.