Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties
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ISBN-13: | 9780765708588 |
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Publisher: | Aronson, Jason Inc. |
Publication date: | 11/16/2012 |
Pages: | 444 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Rapture of Falling, Dying, and Being Born AgainThe Manic DefenseThe Ineffable Nature of EcstasySome Thoughts about Ecstasy“After the Ecstasy Comes the Laundry” Ecstasy as an Altered StateThe Author’s Interest in EcstasyThe Sixties and EcstasyNeeding to Get Out of Our Own SkinTo Heaven or Hell for EcstasyThe Spectrum of Normal and EcstasyChapter 2: Altered States of ConsciousnessConsciousness and the SelfWhat is an Altered State? Dissociative StatesThe History of Altered States in PsychoanalysisAltered States can Enrich our LivesChapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of ConsciousnessEcstasies of HysteriaFreud’s Victorian Ladies Suffering from HysteriaHysteria and DissociationFainting, Swooning, and SeizuresAtiques de Nervois and Other EcstasiesThe Remarkable, Impressionable Human BrainAttachment and the BrainThe Brain’s PlasticitySensitization, Kindling, and AddictionTrauma and Altered States of ConsciousnessThe Third Eye and Altered States of ConsciousnessThe Brain and EcstasyOut of Body ExperiencesNear-Death ExperiencesReligion, Spirituality, and EcstasyOrgasm and EcstasyThe 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 YThe Culture of NarcissismLike a Motherless ChildNeglected and UnprotectedGroup Initiation Rites and EcstasyWhen Life Becomes EcstasyChapter 5: Marketing and Producing EcstasyA Separate RealityPharmaceutical ParadiseMarketing Religious EcstasyChapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and PsychosisExtreme 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 EcstasyWhat Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to KnowCults and the Consciousness ExplosionEcstasies of Cosmic ConsciousnessThe Transcendental Meditation “Vision of Possibilities” Soul MurderShe Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her GuruChapter 7: Ecstasies of Pain and Near-Death ExperiencesBob Flanagan: Super-MasochistThe Nature of PainRitualistic Violence in Music and DanceSadomasochismPlaying with Death and ResurrectionTo Humiliate and to be HumiliatedPlaying with Death Through Starving, Purging, and Mutilating the SelfInitiation into the TribeBody ModificationsNeedle Freaks, Piercing Junkies, and Tattoo AddictsOur Cultural Obsession with SkinThe Tribe of Lambs Who Lay Down for the SlaughterBodily Self-Harm, Body Modifications, and SuicidalityBeware the Gurus and Shamans of PainRaellyn Gallina, Queen of Blood SportsFakir MusafarChapter 8: Religious EcstasiesSri Ramakrishna’s EcstasiesSacred Erotica and Ecstatic SeizuresEcstatic Stigmatics and Holy AnorexicsBorn-Again EcstasiesSpeaking Tongues and Snake Handling EcstasiesThe Spiritual Ecstasies of Generations X and YThe Oceanic Experience: Riding the Waves or Going Under? Without the Darkness there is no LightCrossing the BorderThe Hunger for SpiritualityWhat is The Sacred? Chapter 9: Killing, Cannibalism, and Other Ecstasies from HellAn Ancient Taboo in Modern Times“I Am a Cannibal” Human Sacrifice and the Demon GodThe Ecstasies of Hitler’s Willing ExecutionersThe Ecstasies of the Suicide BombersJailhouse ConversionsThe Ecstasies of a Born-Again KillerChapter 10: Creative Ecstasies The Nature of CreativityTheories of CreativityThe Drive to WriteThe Compulsion to Write and Endlessly WriteMental Illness, Addiction, Epilepsy and CreativityCreativity in Psychotherapy and PsychoanalysisOur Best Creative Minds Speak Out About Their Own Mental IllnessCreative Writing of Scientific ProseChapter 11: Intervening with Those Hungry for EcstasyResilience can Surprise YouProblems in Self-CareThe Crux of the MatterSex Produces Orgasms; Perversions Produce EcstasyPreventive InterventionsThe Holistic InquiryAlcoholism, Compulsive Eating and Bipolar DisorderSelf-Mutilation: “Nothing to Get so Cut Up About” Goth CultureHuffing, Sniffing, Dusting, and Bagging“Dear Abby, My Sister Plays the Choking Game and I’m Worried” Summing UpChapter 12: Power of the Therapist’s Affective ExperienceAn Integrated Approach to TreatmentRising to the ChallengeAttunement and Attachment-Based PsychotherapyThe Therapist as Tuning Fork: Revisiting the Concepts of Neutrality, Abstinence, and AnonymityThe Dissociative Response as a Form of CommunicationProjective Identifications and EnactmentsPassion: A Peculiar Kind of LoveIntuition and ImprovisationWalking About: In Dream Time, Following a Trail of BreadcrumbsThe Ecstasy of Oneness and the Rage of TwonessHope is the Thing with FeathersReferences IndexAbout the AuthorWhat People are Saying About This
Sharon Farber provides a remarkably engaging view of experiences that, for many people, stand among their lives' most defining moments.
In this scholarly and unique book, Sharon Farber reminds us that the hunger for ecstasy is rooted in our nature and in unbearable and painful aspects of life. She explores the special and extraordinary depths and heights we adopt to enjoy, endure, escape, and defend against our nature and human psychological suffering. This book will appeal to a wide audience and students interested in the wide, unusual, and varied workings and experiences of the mind and human behavior.
Sharon Farber takes us on a remarkable tour of the history, science, sociology, and psychology of the much misunderstood experience of ecstasy. Integrating research with clinical vignettes, she utilizes her unique empathy to help us understand even the most extreme compulsions behind the search for ecstatic experience.
A thoughtful, probing book on vital emotional processes.