Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties /
"Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, The Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon Klayman Farber explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction. In an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identi...
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Lanham, Md. :
Jason Aronson,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Rapture of Falling, Dying, and Being Born Again
- The Manic Defense
- The Ineffable Nature of Ecstasy
- Some Thoughts about Ecstasy
- After the Ecstasy Comes the Laundry
- Ecstasy as an Altered State
- The Author's Interest in Ecstasy
- The Sixties and Ecstasy
- Needing to Get Out of Our Own Skin
- To Heaven or Hell for Ecstasy
- The Spectrum of Normal and Ecstasy
- Chapter 2: Altered States of Consciousness
- Consciousness and the Self
- What is an Altered State?
- Dissociative States
- The History of Altered States in Psychoanalysis
- Altered States can Enrich our Lives
- Chapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of Consciousness
- Ecstasies of Hysteria
- Freud's Victorian Ladies Suffering from Hysteria
- Hysteria and Dissociation
- Fainting, Swooning, and Seizures
- Atiques de Nervois and Other Ecstasies
- The Remarkable, Impressionable Human Brain
- Attachment and the Brain
- The Brain's Plasticity
- Sensitization, Kindling, and Addiction
- Trauma and Altered States of Consciousness
- The Third Eye and Altered States of Consciousness
- The Brain and Ecstasy
- Out of Body Experiences
- Near-Death Experiences
- Religion, Spirituality, and Ecstasy
- Orgasm and Ecstasy
- The Brain During Ecstasy
- I Can't Get No Satisfaction
- Chapter 4: The Sixties: Something is Happening Here
- The Legacy of the Sixties
- Life Should be Ecstasy
- Generations X and Y
- The Culture of Narcissism
- Like a Motherless Child
- Neglected and Unprotected
- Group Initiation Rites and Ecstasy
- When Life Becomes Ecstasy
- Chapter 5: Marketing and Producing Ecstasy
- A Separate Reality
- Pharmaceutical Paradise
- Marketing Religious Ecstasy
- Chapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and Psychosis
- Extreme Altered States
- You Create Your Own Reality
- Est, Also Known as The Forum and Landmark Forum: It Is What It Is
- Cults, Motivational Seminars, and the Human Potential Movement
- Snapping and Ecstasy
- What Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to Know
- Cults and the Consciousness Explosion
- Ecstasies of Cosmic Consciousness
- The Transcendental Meditation Vision of Possibilities
- Soul Murder
- She Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her Guru
- Chapter 7: Ecstasies of Pain and Near-Death Experiences
- Bob Flanagan: Super-Masochist
- The Nature of Pain
- Ritualistic Violence in Music and Dance
- Sadomasochism
- Playing with Death and Resurrection
- To Humiliate and to be Humiliated
- Playing with Death Through Starving, Purging, and Mutilating the Self
- Initiation into the Tribe
- Body Modifications
- Needle Freaks, Piercing Junkies, and Tattoo Addicts
- Our Cultural Obsession with Skin
- The Tribe of Lambs Who Lay Down for the Slaughter
- Bodily Self-Harm, Body Modifications, and Suicidality
- Beware the Gurus and Shamans of Pain
- Raellyn Gallina, Queen of Blood Sports
- Fakir Musafar
- Chapter 8: Religious Ecstasies
- Sri Ramakrishna's Ecstasies
- Sacred Erotica and Ecstatic Seizures
- Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics
- Born-Again Ecstasies
- Speaking Tongues and Snake Handling Ecstasies
- The Spiritual Ecstasies of Generations X and Y
- The Oceanic Experience: Riding the Waves or Going Under?
- Without the Darkness there is no Light
- Crossing the Border
- The Hunger for Spirituality
- What is The Sacred?
- Chapter 9: Killing, Cannibalism, and Other Ecstasies from Hell
- An Ancient Taboo in Modern Times
- I Am a Cannibal
- Human Sacrifice and the Demon God
- The Ecstasies of Hitler's Willing Executioners
- The Ecstasies of the Suicide Bombers
- Jailhouse Conversions
- The Ecstasies of a Born-Again Killer
- Chapter 10: Creative Ecstasies
- The Nature of Creativity
- Theories of Creativity
- The Drive to Write
- The Compulsion to Write and Endlessly Write
- Mental Illness, Addiction, Epilepsy and Creativity
- Creativity in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Our Best Creative Minds Speak Out About Their Own Mental Illness
- Creative Writing of Scientific Prose
- Chapter 11: Intervening with Those Hungry for Ecstasy
- Resilience can Surprise You
- Problems in Self-Care
- The Crux of the Matter
- Sex Produces Orgasms; Perversions Produce Ecstasy
- Preventive Interventions
- The Holistic Inquiry
- Alcoholism, Compulsive Eating and Bipolar Disorder
- Self-Mutilation: Nothing to Get so Cut Up About
- Goth Culture
- Huffing, Sniffing, Dusting, and Bagging
- Dear Abby, My Sister Plays the Choking Game and I'm Worried
- Summing Up
- Chapter 12: Power of the Therapist's Affective Experience
- An Integrated Approach to Treatment
- Rising to the Challenge
- Attunement and Attachment-Based Psychotherapy
- The Therapist as Tuning Fork: Revisiting the Concepts of Neutrality, Abstinence, and Anonymity
- The Dissociative Response as a Form of Communication
- Projective Identifications and Enactments
- Passion: A Peculiar Kind of Love
- Intuition and Improvisation
- Walking About: In Dream Time, Following a Trail of Breadcrumbs
- The Ecstasy of Oneness and the Rage of Twoness
- Hope is the Thing with Feathers
- References
- Index
- About the Author.