Marc Wittmann, Philippa Hurd

Altered States of Consciousness

Experiences Out of Time and Self
Übersetzer: Hurd, Philippa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published as Wenn die Zeit stehen bleibt by Marc Wittmann, copyright Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, M/72/unchen 2015"--Title page verso

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 137mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546089
• ISBN-10: 0262546086
• Artikelnr.: 65343120

Autorenporträt

Marc Wittmann is Research Fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany, and the author of Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time (MIT Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: An "I" Awakes ix
1 On Time Consciousness 1
Time Expansion and Moments of Terror 1
Time and Space: The Intoxication of Drugs 11
At One with the World 23
Timeless in Near-Death 30
2 The Moment 41
Absolutely in the Moment 41
The Duration of a Moment 44
Mindfulness and Time 54
Beyond the Moment to Timelessness 63
Daydreams and Mind Wandering 74
3 Loss of Time and Self 77
A Puzzling Patient 77
Body, Emotions, Time 81
Me, Myself, and I: Boredom, Depression, Meditation 85
Epilepsy and Timelessness 91
Schizophrenia, or When Time Stands Still 95
Timeless through the Doors of Perception 104
Epilogue: On Scientific Awakening 115
Acknowledgments 123
Notes 129
Index 173

Rezensionen

To make a book either about altered states of consciousness or about time accessible to nonexperts is, by itself, a great challenge. In Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self, author Marc Wittmann takes one step further and combines these two topics to discuss how they are related . . . his book is likely to be enjoyed both by readers who are novices in these areas and by readers who are already familiar with one of these topics.
Perception