Sharon Klayman Farber

Hungry for Ecstasy

Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties

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Produktbeschreibung

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 identify the phenomenon and ultimately intervene with patients, friends, and loved ones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9780765708588
• ISBN-10: 0765708582
• Artikelnr.: 34012576

Autorenporträt

Sharon Klayman Farber, PhD, is a board certified diplomate in clinical social work. She is the author of When the Body is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments.

Inhaltsangabe

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