Publications
This is an abridged list of publications with EPRC members as primary or co-authors. Publications can be viewed by year, or by EPRC project.
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Publications by Year
2024
Arruda Sanchez, T., Ramos, L. R., Araujo, F., Schenberg, E. E., Yonamine, M., Lobo, I., De Araujo, D. B., & Luna, L. E. (2024). Emotion regulation effects of Ayahuasca in experienced subjects during implicit aversive stimulation: An fMRI study. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 320, 117430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2023.117430
Baten, C., Klassen, A. M., Zamora, G., Shepherd, J. H., Badawia, A., Kailay, A., Leung, C., Ranjithprabhu, A., Sahota, J., Saravia, S., Miller, J. A., Woo, E., Gotlib, I. H., Hamilton, P., Sacchet, M. D., Hedges, D. W., & Miller, C. H. (2024). Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies Reveals Abnormal Patterns of Neural Activation in Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia. Biological Psychiatry, 95(10), S123–S124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.295
David, J., Bouso, J. C., Kohek, M., Ona, G., Tadmor, N., Arnon, T., Dor-Ziderman, Y., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2023). Ayahuasca-induced personal death experiences: prevalence, characteristics, and impact on attitudes toward death, life, and the environment. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1287961. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1287961
Galante, J., & Van Dam, N. T. (2024). Mind the Echo Chamber: Mindfulness as a Contemplative Practice That can Contribute to Public Health. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02343-4
Ganesan, S., Yang, W. F. Z., Chowdhury, A., Zalesky, A., & Sacchet, M. D. (2024). Within‐subject reliability of brain networks during advanced meditation: An intensively sampled 7 Tesla MRI case study. Human Brain Mapping, 45(7), e26666. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26666
Jönhagen, E., Wood, T., Niemi, M., & Galante, J. (2024). Mindfulness Teacher Trainees’ Experiences (MTTE): An investigation of intense experiences in mindfulness-based interventions. PLOS ONE, 19(4), e0301593. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301593
Kahlon, S. K., Lindlahr, C., Klassen, A. M., Baten, C., Ali, Z., Shepherd, J. H., Zamora, G., Saravia, S., Pritchard, E., Jordan, J., Maly, G., Duran, M., Santos, S. L., Woo, E., Nimarko, A. F., Hedges, D. H., Hamilton, P., Sacchet, M. D., Gotlib, I. H., & Miller, C. H. (2024). Common and Distinct Patterns of Neural Activation Between Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Comparison of Meta-Analytic Findings From Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Biological Psychiatry, 95(10), S125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.299
Klassen, A. M., Baten, C., Zamora, G., Shepherd, J. H., Johnson-Venegas, E., Madugula, S. S., Woo, E., Hamilton, J. P., Miller, J. A., Sacchet, M. D., Hedges, D. W., & Miller, C. H. (2024). Efficacy of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: An Umbrella Review. Biological Psychiatry, 95(10), S198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.476
McAlpine, R. G., Sacchet, M. D., Simonsson, O., Khan, M., Krajnovic, K., Morometescu, L., & Kamboj, S. K. (2024). Development of a digital intervention for psychedelic preparation (DIPP). Scientific Reports, 14(1), 4072. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54642-4
Peill, J., Marguilho, M., Erritzoe, D., Barba, T., Greenway, K. T., Rosas, F., Timmermann, C., & Carhart-Harris, R. (2024). Psychedelics and the ‘inner healer’: Myth or mechanism? Journal of Psychopharmacology, 02698811241239206. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811241239206
Sacchet, M. D., Fava, M., & Garland, E. L. (2024). Modulating self‐referential processing through meditation and psychedelics: is scientific investigation of self‐transcendence clinically relevant? World Psychiatry, 23(2), 298–299. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21214
Sacchet, M. D., Keshava, P., Walsh, S. W., Potash, R. M., Li, M., Liu, H., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2024). Individualized Functional Brain System Topologies and Major Depression: Relationships Among Patch Sizes and Clinical Profiles and Behavior. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, S2451902224000624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.02.011
Salguero, C. P., Cheung, K., & Deane, S. (Eds.). (2024). Buddhist Healing in the Modern World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Shepherd, J. H., Hickman, A., Baten, C., Klassen, A. M., Zamora, G., Johnson-Venegas, E., Madugula, S. S., Woo, E., Hamilton, J. P., Miller, J. A., Sacchet, M. D., Hedges, D. W., & Miller, C. H. (2024). Neural Effects of Acute Ketamine Administration in Healthy Individuals: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Activation Studies. Biological Psychiatry, 95(10), S172–S173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.413
Vainre, M., Dalgleish, T., Watson, P., Haag, C., Dercon, Q., Galante, J., & Hitchcock, C. (2024). Work Engagement and Well-being Study (SWELL): a randomised controlled feasibility trial evaluating the effects of mindfulness versus light physical exercise at work. BMJ Mental Health, 27(1), e300885. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300885
Van Lutterveld, R., Chowdhury, A., Ingram, D. M., & Sacchet, M. D. (2024). Neurophenomenological Investigation of Mindfulness Meditation “Cessation” Experiences Using EEG Network Analysis in an Intensively Sampled Adept Meditator. Brain Topography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-024-01052-4
Wright, M. J., Galante, J., Corneille, J. S., Grabovac, A., Ingram, D. M., & Sacchet, M. D. (2024). Altered States of Consciousness are Prevalent and Insufficiently Supported Clinically: A Population Survey. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02356-z
Yang, W. F. Z., Sparby, T., Wright, M., Kim, E., & Sacchet, M. D. (2024). Volitional mental absorption in meditation: Toward a scientific understanding of advanced concentrative absorption meditation and the case of jhana. Heliyon, 10(10), e31223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31223
2023
Atasoy, S., Escrichs, A., Stark, E., Terry, K. G. M., Camara, E., Sanjuan, A., Chandaria, S., Deco, G., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2023). The meditative brain: State and trait changes in harmonic complexity for long-term mindfulness meditators [Preprint]. Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.16.567347
Berghmans, C. (2023a). Approches thérapeutiques de transmission d’intention à distance (Distant Healing Therapy) et effets sur la santé : défi épistémologique face aux résultats probants ! Psychologie Française, 68(4), 543–557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psfr.2021.12.002
Berghmans, C. (2023b). L’impact de l’exposition à la nature (bain de forêts) sur la santé mentale : une revue d’études contrôlées et randomisées et une analyse des processus d’action. L’Évolution Psychiatrique, S001438552300083X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2023.06.003
Berghmans, C. (2023c). L’impact des approches thérapeutiques basées sur la spiritualité dans le champ de la santé mentale au niveau de l’anxiété : une revue exploratoire de la littérature de travaux contrôlés et randomisés. Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique, 181(9), 791–801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2023.04.002
Berghmans, C. (2023d). Spiritualité et santé mentale: approches thérapeutiques émergeantes. l’Harmattan.
Berghmans, C., & Weiss, A. (2023). The influence of the spiritual dimension as a complementary therapeutic dynamic in meditation practices and in the field of mental health. L’Évolution Psychiatrique, 88, e13–e23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2023.03.006
Bryant-Scott, W. (2023a). Attention and the Unbinding of Perception. Wystan’s. https://www.wystantbs.com/no-ones-busyness/blog-post-title-four-w28wc-dg8hl
Bryant-Scott, W. (2023b). Buddhist-Psychonautical Propaganda. Wystan’s. https://www.wystantbs.com/no-ones-busyness/blog-post-title-four-w28wc-dg8hl-pzfw3-l2lse-Guuz7-f5zne
Bryant-Scott, W. (2023c). Perspective(s) on Nirvana, Cessation, and Emptiness. Wystan’s. https://www.wystantbs.com/no-ones-busyness/blog-post-title-four-w28wc-dg8hl-pzfw3-l2lse-Guuz7
Chowdhury, A., Lutterveld, R. V., Laukkonen, R. E., Slagter, H. A., Ingram, D. M., & Sacchet, M. D. (2023). Investigation of advanced mindfulness meditation “cessation” experiences using EEG spectral analysis in an intensively sampled case study. Neuropsychologia, 108694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108694
David, J., Bouso, J. C., Kohek, M., Ona, G., Tadmor, N., Arnon, T., Dor-Ziderman, Y., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2023). Ayahuasca-induced personal death experiences: prevalence, characteristics, and impact on attitudes toward death, life, and the environment. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1287961. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1287961
Daw, M., Roe, C., & Cooper, C. E. (2023). How Fasting and Vegetarianism is Perceived to Support Psi among Adepts. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 55(1). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374948764_How_Fasting_and_Vegetarianism_is_Perceived_to_Support_Psi_among_Adepts
De Foe, A. (2023). Considerations in the Application of Psychedelic-Augmented Psychotherapy: A Commentary on Clinical Mechanisms. Psychoactives, 2(2), 162–173. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychoactives2020011
Evans, J., Robinson, O. C., Argyri, E. K., Suseelan, S., Murphy-Beiner, A., McAlpine, R., Luke, D., Michelle, K., & Prideaux, E. (2023). Extended difficulties following the use of psychedelic drugs: A mixed methods study. PLOS ONE, 18(10), e0293349. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293349
Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Collaboration of Mindfulness Trials (CoMinT), Aeamla-Or, N., Arts-de Jong, M., Barrett, B., Bögels, S. M., Buitelaar, J. K., Checovich, M. M., Christopher, M. S., Davidson, R. J., Errazuriz, A., Goldberg, S. B., Greven, C. U., Hirshberg, M. J., Huang, S.-L., Hunsinger, M., Hwang, Y.-S., Jones, P. B., … White, I. R. (2023). Systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials assessing mindfulness-based programs for mental health promotion. Nature Mental Health, 1(7), 462–476. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00081-5
Galante, J., Grabovac, A., Wright, M., Ingram, D. M., Van Dam, N. T., Sanguinetti, J. L., Sparby, T., Van Lutterveld, R., & Sacchet, M. D. (2023). A Framework for the Empirical Investigation of Mindfulness Meditative Development. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02113-8
Galante, J., Montero-Marín, J., Vainre, M., Dufour, G., Garcia-Campayo, J., & Jones, P. B. (2023). Altered states of consciousness caused by a mindfulness-based programme up to a year later: results from a randomised controlled trial [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/znh3f
Gallagher, S., Raffone, A., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Barendregt, H. P., Bauer, P. R., Brown, K. W., Giommi, F., Nyklíček, I., Ostafin, B. D., Slagter, H., Trautwein, F.-M., & Vago, D. R. (2023). The Self-Pattern and Buddhist Psychology. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02118-3
Ganesan, S., A. Moffat, B., Van Dam, N. T., Lorenzetti, V., & Zalesky, A. (2023). Meditation attenuates default-mode activity: A pilot study using ultra-high field 7 Tesla MRI. Brain Research Bulletin, 203, 110766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2023.110766
Garrote-Caparrós, E., Lecuona, Ó., Bellosta-Batalla, M., Moya-Albiol, L., & Cebolla, A. (2023). Efficacy of a mindfulness and compassion-based intervention in psychotherapists and their patients: Empathy, symptomatology, and mechanisms of change in a randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy, 60(2), 182–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000467
Grobenski, B. (2023). Why Music Theory of Consciousness? Investigation of Qualia Formalism at the Implementation Level. Blog: Things I Wasn’t Supposed to Talk About. https://thingsiwasntsupposedtotalkabout.com/2023/11/23/why-music-theory-of-consciousness-investigation-of-qualia-formalism-at-the-implementation-level/
Huecker, M., Ferguson, B. A., & Shreffler, J. (2023). Wellness Review 2022, Part 2. Journal of Wellness, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.55504/2578-9333.1215
Laukkonen, R. E., Sacchet, M. D., Barendregt, H., Devaney, K. J., Chowdhury, A., & Slagter, H. A. (2023). Cessations of consciousness in meditation: Advancing a scientific understanding of nirodha samāpatti. In Progress in Brain Research (p. S0079612322001984). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.12.007
Lieberman, J. M., Rabellino, D., Densmore, M., Frewen, P. A., Steyrl, D., Scharnowski, F., Théberge, J., Neufeld, R. W. J., Schmahl, C., Jetly, R., Narikuzhy, S., Lanius, R. A., & Nicholson, A. A. (2023). Posterior cingulate cortex targeted real‐time fMRI neurofeedback recalibrates functional connectivity with the amygdala, posterior insula, and default‐mode network in PTSD. Brain and Behavior, 13(3), e2883. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2883
Luan, L. X., Eckernäs, E., Ashton, M., Rosas, F. E., Uthaug, M. V., Bartha, A., Jagger, S., Gascon-Perai, K., Gomes, L., Nutt, D. J., Erritzøe, D., Carhart-Harris, R. L., & Timmermann, C. (2023). Psychological and physiological effects of extended DMT. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 02698811231196877. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811231196877
Lutkajtis, A., & Evans, J. (2023). Psychedelic integration challenges: Participant experiences after a psilocybin truffle retreat in the Netherlands. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 6(3), 211–221. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2022.00232
Mahady, A., Takac, M., & De Foe, A. (2023). Differences between autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and biophilia: A pilot study. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000357
Penberthy, J. K., Pehlivanova, M., Kalelioglu, T., Roe, C. A., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D., & Elsaesser, E. (2023). Factors Moderating the Impact of After Death Communications on Beliefs and Spirituality. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 87(3), 884–901. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211029160
Salguero, C. P. (2023). “Meditation Sickness” in Medieval Chinese Buddhism and the Contemporary West. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 30, 45. https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2023/08/Salguero-Finalized-ms-for-publication47.pdf
Sparby, T. (2023). Micro-Phenomenological Self-Inquiry. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 22(1), 247–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09815-9
Spittles, B. (2023). Better Understanding Psychosis: Psychospiritual Considerations in Clinical Settings. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 63(2), 246–254. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820904622
Timmermann, C., Roseman, L., Haridas, S., Rosas, F. E., Luan, L., Kettner, H., Martell, J., Erritzoe, D., Tagliazucchi, E., Pallavicini, C., Girn, M., Alamia, A., Leech, R., Nutt, D. J., & Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2023). Human brain effects of DMT assessed via EEG-fMRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(13), e2218949120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218949120
Van Dam, N. T., & Galante, J. (2023). Underestimating harm in mindfulness-based stress reduction. Psychological Medicine, 53(1), 292–294. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172000447X
Voss, S., Cerna, J., & Gothe, N. P. (2023). Yoga Impacts Cognitive Health: Neurophysiological Changes and Stress Regulation Mechanisms. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, 51(2), 73–81. https://doi.org/10.1249/JES.0000000000000311
Wedervang-Resell, K., & Szabo, A. (2023). The immunopsychiatry of early-onset psychosis. In Adolescent Psychosis(pp. 153–175). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-89832-4.00013-5
Woollacott, M., & Shumway-Cook, A. (2023). Spiritual awakening and transformation in scientists and academics. EXPLORE, 19(3), 319–329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2022.08.016
Woollacott, M., Shumway-Cook, A., & Renesch, J. (2023). Reflections on extraordinary knowing: Insight into the nature of the mind. EXPLORE, 19(4), 500–505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2022.12.003
Woollacott, M., Shumway-Cook, A., & Tassell-Matamua, N. (2023). Worldviews and environmental ethics: Contributions of brain processing networks. EXPLORE, 19(5), 630–635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2023.03.005
Wright, M. J., Sanguinetti, J. L., Young, S., & Sacchet, M. D. (2023). Uniting Contemplative Theory and Scientific Investigation: Toward a Comprehensive Model of the Mind. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02101-y
Yang, W. F. Z., Chowdhury, A., Bianciardi, M., Van Lutterveld, R., Sparby, T., & Sacchet, M. D. (2023). Intensive whole-brain 7T MRI case study of volitional control of brain activity in deep absorptive meditation states. Cerebral Cortex, bhad408. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad408
2022
Beitman, B. D. (2022). Meaningful coincidences: how and why synchronicity and serendipity happen. Park Street Press.
Berghmans, C. (2022). The concept of the “thought-form” in esoteric and spiritual therapeutic traditions, and its complementarity with the process of visualization and symbolic efficacy: A working hypothesis. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 22(2), 131–152. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.842875419806592
Berghmans, C., & Weiss, A. (2022). L’influence de la dimension spirituelle comme dynamique thérapeutique complémentaire dans les pratiques de méditation et dans le champ de la santé mentale. L’Évolution Psychiatrique, 87(4), 661–671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2021.12.006
Cherniak, A. D., Gruneau Brulin, J., Mikulincer, M., Östlind, S., Carhart-Harris, R., & Granqvist, P. (2022). Psychedelic Science of Spirituality and Religion: An Attachment-Informed Agenda Proposal. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2022.2148061
Ciaunica, A., McEllin, L., Kiverstein, J., Gallese, V., Hohwy, J., & Woźniak, M. (2022). Zoomed out: digital media use and depersonalization experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 3888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07657-8
Ciaunica, A., & Safron, A. (2022). Disintegrating and Reintegrating the Self – (In)Flexible Self-Models in Depersonalisation and Psychedelic Experiences [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mah78
Ciaunica, A., Seth, A., Limanowski, J., Hesp, C., & Friston, K. J. (2022). I overthink—Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 101, 103320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103320
Daws, R. E., Timmermann, C., Giribaldi, B., Sexton, J. D., Wall, M. B., Erritzoe, D., Roseman, L., Nutt, D., & Carhart-Harris, R. (2022). Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression. Nature Medicine, 28(4), 844–851. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01744-z
Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Dalgleish, T., White, I. R., & Jones, P. B. (2022). Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in adults in non-clinical settings: protocol of an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Open, 12(4), e058976. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058976
Ganesan, S., Beyer, E., Moffat, B., Van Dam, N. T., Lorenzetti, V., & Zalesky, A. (2022). Focused attention meditation in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional functional MRI studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 141, 104846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104846
Garrote‐Caparrós, E., Bellosta‐Batalla, M., Moya‐Albiol, L., & Cebolla, A. (2022). Effectiveness of mindfulness‐based interventions on psychotherapy processes: A systematic review. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 29(3), 783–798. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2676
Huecker, M., Ferguson, B. A., & Shreffler, J. (2022). Wellness Review 2022, Part 1. Journal of Wellness, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.55504/2578-9333.1178
Lutkajtis, A. (2022). Ministry of the Mushroom: Psilocybin Churches, Psychedelic Experience and Sacred Sensemaking. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.20152
McCartney, A. M., McGovern, H. T., & De Foe, A. (2022). Predictors of Psychedelic Experience: A Thematic Analysis. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 55(4), 411–419. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2022.2129885
Penberthy, J. K., Russell, G., Phillips, J., Banaji, M., Mann, N., & Dameron, E. (2022). Medical Stress and Fear of Death and Dying in a Medical Patient Population. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 86(1), 255–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222820966926
Rush, M. (2022). An Evaluation of the UK Spiritual Crisis Network (SCN) Summary Report.
Salguero, C. P. (2022). A global history of Buddhism and medicine. Columbia University Press.
Sobhani, M. (2022). Proof of spiritual phenomena: a neuroscientist’s discovery of the ineffable mysteries of the universe. Park Street Press.
Sparby, T. (2022a). Rudolf Steiner and the ‘Guardian of the Threshold’, Part I. Steiner Studies, 3(3), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.12857/STS.951000340-12
Sparby, T. (2022b). Rudolf Steiner and the ‘Guardian of the Threshold’, Part II. Steiner Studies, 3(3), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.12857/STS.951000340-13
Sparby, T. (2022c). What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way: Dual and Non-Dual Approaches to Meditation Hindrances in Buddhist Traditions and Contemplative Science. Religions, 13(9), 840. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090840
Sparby, T., & Sacchet, M. D. (2022). Defining Meditation: Foundations for an Activity-Based Phenomenological Classification System. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 795077. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.795077
Spittles, B. (2022). Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations: Engaging and Better Understanding the Madness and Spiritual Emergence Nexus. Aeon Books.
Szabo, A., O‘Connell, K. S., Ueland, T., Sheikh, M. A., Agartz, I., Andreou, D., Aukrust, P., Boye, B., Bøen, E., Drange, O. K., Elvsåshagen, T., Engh, J. A., Hope, S., Collier Høegh, M., Joa, I., Johnsen, E., Kroken, R. A., Vik Lagerberg, T., Lekva, T., … Djurovic, S. (2022). Increased circulating IL-18 levels in severe mental disorders indicate systemic inflammasome activation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 99, 299–306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.10.017
Teixeira, P. J., Johnson, M. W., Timmermann, C., Watts, R., Erritzoe, D., Douglass, H., Kettner, H., & Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2022). Psychedelics and health behaviour change. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 36(1), 12–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811211008554
Timmermann, C., Watts, R., & Dupuis, D. (2022). Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations. Transcultural Psychiatry, 59(5), 691–704. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221082796
Woollacott, M., & Lorimer, D. (Eds.). (2022). Spiritual awakenings: scientists and academics describe their experiences. AAPS Press.
Woollacott, M., Roe, C. A., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D., & Elsaesser, E. (2022). Perceptual phenomena associated with spontaneous experiences of after-death communication: Analysis of visual, tactile, auditory and olfactory sensations. EXPLORE, 18(4), 423–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2021.02.006
2021
Berghmans, C., & Weiss, A. (2021). L’approche méditative de concentration au sein des prises en charge thérapeutiques et son impact sur la santé mentale : une revue de la littérature sur des essais cliniques contrôlés et randomisés. Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique, 179(9), 805–811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2021.04.004
Brandmeyer, T., & Delorme, A. (2021). Meditation and the Wandering Mind: A Theoretical Framework of Underlying Neurocognitive Mechanisms. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(1), 39–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620917340
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Daly, H. (2016). Shadowy Beauty: The Art of Hypnopompic Inquiry [Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies]. https://www.proquest.com/openview/87359d5dd856200d0b7e55adf186cc8d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Galante, J., Bekkers, M., Mitchell, C., & Gallacher, J. (2016). Loving‐Kindness Meditation Effects on Well‐Being and Altruism: A Mixed‐Methods Online RCT. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 8(3), 322–350. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12074
Galante, J., Dufour, G., Benton, A., Howarth, E., Vainre, M., Croudace, T. J., Wagner, A. P., Stochl, J., & Jones, P. B. (2016). Protocol for the Mindful Student Study: a randomised controlled trial of the provision of a mindfulness intervention to support university students’ well-being and resilience to stress. BMJ Open, 6(11), e012300. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012300
Galante, J., Dufour, G., Vainre, M., Wagner, A. P., Stochl, J., Croudace, T. J., Benton, A., Howarth, E., & Jones, P. B. (2016). Provision of a mindfulness intervention to support university students’ wellbeing and resilience to stress: preliminary results of a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 388, S49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32285-1
Mira, A., Campos, D., Etchemendy, E., Baños, R. M., & Cebolla, A. (2016). Access to autobiographical memory as an emotion regulation strategy and its relation to dispositional mindfulness. Mindfulness & Compassion, 1(1), 39–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.09.005
Ross, C. A. (2016). Talking about God with Trauma Survivors. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 70(4), 429–437. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2016.70.4.429
Rush, M. (2016). The contribution of Western Esotericism to transpersonal psychology. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 18(1), 32–43. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2016.18.1.32
Szabo, A., & Frecska, E. (2016). Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): a biochemical Swiss Army knife in neuroinflammation and neuroprotection? Neural Regeneration Research, 11(3), 396. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.179041
Szabo, A., Kovacs, A., Riba, J., Djurovic, S., Rajnavolgyi, E., & Frecska, E. (2016). The Endogenous Hallucinogen and Trace Amine N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) Displays Potent Protective Effects against Hypoxia via Sigma-1 Receptor Activation in Human Primary iPSC-Derived Cortical Neurons and Microglia-Like Immune Cells. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00423
Vago, D. R., & Zeidan, F. (2016). The brain on silent: mind wandering, mindful awareness, and states of mental tranquility: The brain on silent. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1373(1), 96–113. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13171
2015
Ataria, Y., Dor-Ziderman, Y., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2015). How does it feel to lack a sense of boundaries? A case study of a long-term mindfulness meditator. Consciousness and Cognition, 37, 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.09.002
Berkovich‐Ohana, A., Wilf, M., Kahana, R., Arieli, A., & Malach, R. (2015). Repetitive speech elicits widespread deactivation in the human cortex: the “Mantra” effect? Brain and Behavior, 5(7), e00346. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.346
Ciaunica, A. (2015). Basic Forms of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness: a Developmental Perspective. In Pre-reflective Consciousness (Routledge).
Grabovac, A. (2015). The Stages of Insight: Clinical Relevance for Mindfulness-Based Interventions. Mindfulness, 6(3), 589–600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-014-0294-2
Ross, C. A. (2015). Problems With DSM–5 Somatic Symptom Disorder. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 16(4), 341–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2014.989558
Sparby, T. (2015). Investigating the Depths of Consciousness Through Meditation.
Szabo, A. (2015a). Psychedelics and Immunomodulation: Novel Approaches and Therapeutic Opportunities. Frontiers in Immunology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00358
Szabo, A. (2015b). Psychoneuroimmunology and the embodied mind. Lege Artis Medicinae, 25(10), 445–453.
Van Lutterveld, R., & Brewer, J. (2015). Neurofeedback from the Posterior Cingulate Cortex as a Mental Mirror for Meditation. Biofeedback, 43(3), 117–120. https://doi.org/10.5298/1081-5937-43.3.05
2014
Bauer, C. C. C., Barrios, F. A., & Díaz, J.-L. (2014). Subjective Somatosensory Experiences Disclosed by Focused Attention: Cortical-Hippocampal-Insular and Amygdala Contributions. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e104721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104721
Bauer, C. C. C., Díaz, J.-L., Concha, L., & Barrios, F. A. (2014). Sustained attention to spontaneous thumb sensations activates brain somatosensory and other proprioceptive areas. Brain and Cognition, 87, 86–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2014.03.009
Berkovich-Ohana, A., & Glicksohn, J. (2014). The consciousness state space (CSS) — a unifying model for consciousness and self. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00341
Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2014). Studying the default mode and its mindfulness-induced changes using EEG functional connectivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(10), 1616–1624. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst153
Evans, D. R., Eisenlohr‐Moul, T. A., Button, D. F., Baer, R. A., & Segerstrom, S. C. (2014). Self‐regulatory deficits associated with unpracticed mindfulness strategies for coping with acute pain. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44(1), 23–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12196
Galante, J., Galante, I., Bekkers, M.-J., & Gallacher, J. (2014). Effect of kindness-based meditation on health and well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(6), 1101–1114. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037249
Ross, C. A. (2014). Problems with autism, catatonia and schizophrenia in DSM-5. Schizophrenia Research, 158(1–3), 264–265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.06.017
Schnall, E., Schiffman, M., & Cherniak, A. (2014). Virtues That Transcend: Positive Psychology in Jewish Texts and Tradition. In C. Kim-Prieto (Ed.), Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures (Vol. 9, pp. 21–45). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8950-9_2
Sparby, T. (2014). The Problem of Higher Knowledge in Hegel’s Philosophy. Hegel Bulletin, 35(1), 33–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2014.3
Szabo, A., Horvath, L., & Szummer, C. (2014). Phenomenology and Altered States of Consciousness: A New Framework for Analysis? Psychologia Hungarica Caroliensis, 2((2)), 7–29.
Szabo, A., Kovacs, A., Frecska, E., & Rajnavolgyi, E. (2014). Psychedelic N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine Modulate Innate and Adaptive Inflammatory Responses through the Sigma-1 Receptor of Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e106533. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106533
Before 2014
Berkovich-Ohana, A., Dor-Ziderman, Y., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2013). Alterations in the sense of time, space, and body in the mindfulness-trained brain: a neurophenomenologically-guided MEG study. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00912
Bragdon, E. (1993). A sourcebook for helping people with spiritual problems (2nd ed).
Bragdon, E. (2012). Resources for extraordinary healing: schizophrenia, bipolar and other serious mental illnesses. Lightening Up Press.
Bragdon, E. (2013). The Call of Spiritual Emergency. EBookIt.com.
Brandmeyer, T., & Delorme, A. (2013). Meditation and neurofeedback. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00688
Cebolla, A., García-Palacios, A., Soler, J., Guillen, V., Baños, R., & Botella, C. (2012). Psychometric properties of the Spanish validation of the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ). The European Journal of Psychiatry, 26(2), 118–126. https://doi.org/10.4321/S0213-61632012000200005
De Foe, A. (2012). How Should Therapists Respond to Client Accounts of Out-of-Body Experience? International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 31(1), 75–82. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2012.31.1.75
Evans, J. (2013). Philosophy For Life And Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy For Modern Problems. New World Library.
Grabovac, A., Clark, N., & McKenna, M. (2008). Pilot Study and Evaluation of Postgraduate Course on “The Interface Between Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry.” Academic Psychiatry, 32(4), 332–337. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.32.4.332
Grabovac, A. D., Lau, M. A., & Willett, B. R. (2011). Mechanisms of Mindfulness: A Buddhist Psychological Model. Mindfulness, 2(3), 154–166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-011-0054-5
Read, J., & Ross, C. A. (2003). Psychological Trauma and Psychosis: Another Reason Why People Diagnosed Schizophrenic Must Be Offered Psychological Therapies. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 31(1), 247–268. https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.31.1.247.21938
Ross, C. A. (1984). Diagnosis of multiple personality during hypnosis: A case report. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 32(2), 222–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207148408416012
Ross, C. A. (1985). DSM-III: Problems in Diagnosing Partial Forms of Multiple Personality Disorder: Discussion Paper. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 78(11), 933–936. https://doi.org/10.1177/014107688507801112
Ross, C. A. (1986). Biological tests for mental illness: Their use and misuse. Biological Psychiatry, 21(5–6), 431–435. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(86)90184-8
Ross, C. A. (2004). Schizophrenia: innovations in diagnosis and treatment. Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press.
Ross, C. A. (2009a). Errors of Logic and Scholarship Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 18(2), 221–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538710902743982
Ross, C. A. (2009b). Human energy fields: a new science and medicine. Manitou Communications.
Ross, C. A. (2011). Possession Experiences in Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 12(4), 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2011.573762
Ross, C. A., & Ellason, J. W. (2005). Discriminating among Diagnostic Categories Using the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule. Psychological Reports, 96(2), 445–453. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.96.2.445-453
Ross, C. A., & Halpern, N. (2009). Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity (Manitou Communications).
Ross, C. A., & Pam, A. (Eds.). (1995). Pseudoscience in biological psychiatry: blaming the body. Wiley & Sons.
Ross, C. A., Schroeder, E., & Ness, L. (2013). Dissociation and Symptoms of Culture-Bound Syndromes in North America: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 14(2), 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2013.724338
Ross, C. A., Siddiqui, A. R., & Matas, M. (1987). DSM-III: Problems in Diagnosis of Paranoia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 32(2), 146–148. https://doi.org/10.1177/070674378703200212
Ross, M. D. (2013). Structural dissociation: a proposed modification of the theory (1st ed). Manitou Communications.
Rush, M. (2009). On The Side Of The Angels: Neuroscience & Religious Experience.
Rush, M. (2013). Spiritual Crisis in the UK. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 3(2), 168–171. https://doi.org/10.1179/2044024313Z.00000000014
Szabo, A., & Rajnavolgyi, E. (2013). The Brain-Immune-Gut Triangle: Innate Immunity in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders. Current Immunology Reviews, 9(4), 241–248.
Vago, D. R., & Silbersweig, D. A. (2012). Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00296
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Anthropology (22)
Beitman, B. D. (2022). Meaningful coincidences: how and why synchronicity and serendipity happen. Park Street Press.
Daly, H. (2016). Shadowy Beauty: The Art of Hypnopompic Inquiry [Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies]. https://www.proquest.com/openview/87359d5dd856200d0b7e55adf186cc8d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Lutkajtis, A. (2019a). Delineating the ‘Dark Night’ in Buddhist Postmodernism. Literature & Aesthetics, 29((2)).
Lutkajtis, A. (2019b). “The Answer to All Your Problems?” The Overly Positive Presentation of Meditation in the Media. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 32(1), 49–71. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.37863
Lutkajtis, A. (2019c). The Dark Side of Dharma: Why Have Adverse Effects of Meditation Been Ignored in Contemporary Western Secular Contexts? Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 31(2), 192–217. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.37053
Lutkajtis, A. (2020). Lost Saints: Desacralization, Spiritual Abuse and Magic Mushrooms. Fieldwork in Religion, 14(2), 118–139. https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.40554
Lutkajtis, A. (2022). Ministry of the Mushroom: Psilocybin Churches, Psychedelic Experience and Sacred Sensemaking. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.20152
Ross, C. A., Schroeder, E., & Ness, L. (2013). Dissociation and Symptoms of Culture-Bound Syndromes in North America: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 14(2), 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2013.724338
Rush, M. (2009). On The Side Of The Angels: Neuroscience & Religious Experience.
Rush, M. (2016). The contribution of Western Esotericism to transpersonal psychology. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 18(1), 32–43. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2016.18.1.32
Salguero, C. P. (Ed.). (2020). Buddhism and medicine: an anthology of modern and contemporary sources. Columbia University Press.
Salguero, C. P. (2022). A global history of Buddhism and medicine. Columbia University Press.
Salguero, C. P. (2023). “Meditation Sickness” in Medieval Chinese Buddhism and the Contemporary West. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 30, 45. https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2023/08/Salguero-Finalized-ms-for-publication47.pdf
Salguero, C. P., Cheung, K., & Deane, S. (Eds.). (2024). Buddhist Healing in the Modern World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Sandilands, O. (2021). Cultiver la Vie (I). La méditation au prisme de la phénoménologie non-intentionelle. [Cultivating Life (I). Meditation through the lens of non-intentional phenomenology.]. Chroniques Phénoménologiques, 18.
Schnall, E., Schiffman, M., & Cherniak, A. (2014). Virtues That Transcend: Positive Psychology in Jewish Texts and Tradition. In C. Kim-Prieto (Ed.), Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures (Vol. 9, pp. 21–45). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8950-9_2
Sparby, T. (2014). The Problem of Higher Knowledge in Hegel’s Philosophy. Hegel Bulletin, 35(1), 33–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2014.3
Sparby, T. (2022a). Rudolf Steiner and the ‘Guardian of the Threshold’, Part I. Steiner Studies, 3(3), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.12857/STS.951000340-12
Sparby, T. (2022b). Rudolf Steiner and the ‘Guardian of the Threshold’, Part II. Steiner Studies, 3(3), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.12857/STS.951000340-13
Sparby, T. (2022c). What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way: Dual and Non-Dual Approaches to Meditation Hindrances in Buddhist Traditions and Contemplative Science. Religions, 13(9), 840. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090840
Woollacott, M. H., Kason, Y., & Park, R. D. (2021). Investigation of the phenomenology, physiology and impact of spiritually transformative experiences – kundalini awakening. EXPLORE, 17(6), 525–534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.07.005
Woollacott, M., & Shumway-Cook, A. (2023). Spiritual awakening and transformation in scientists and academics. EXPLORE, 19(3), 319–329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2022.08.016
Diagnosis (29)
Bryant-Scott, W. (2023). Perspective(s) on Nirvana, Cessation, and Emptiness. Wystan’s. https://www.wystantbs.com/no-ones-busyness/blog-post-title-four-w28wc-dg8hl-pzfw3-l2lse-Guuz7
Ciaunica, A., Charlton, J., & Farmer, H. (2021). When the Window Cracks: Transparency and the Fractured Self in Depersonalisation. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 20(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-020-09677-z
Ciaunica, A., Seth, A., Limanowski, J., Hesp, C., & Friston, K. J. (2022). I overthink—Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 101, 103320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103320
Ross, C. A. (1984). Diagnosis of multiple personality during hypnosis: A case report. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 32(2), 222–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207148408416012
Ross, C. A. (1985). DSM-III: Problems in Diagnosing Partial Forms of Multiple Personality Disorder: Discussion Paper. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 78(11), 933–936. https://doi.org/10.1177/014107688507801112
Ross, C. A. (1986). Biological tests for mental illness: Their use and misuse. Biological Psychiatry, 21(5–6), 431–435. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(86)90184-8
Ross, C. A. (2004). Schizophrenia: innovations in diagnosis and treatment. Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press.
Ross, C. A. (2009). Errors of Logic and Scholarship Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 18(2), 221–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538710902743982
Ross, C. A. (2011). Possession Experiences in Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 12(4), 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2011.573762
Ross, C. A. (2014). Problems with autism, catatonia and schizophrenia in DSM-5. Schizophrenia Research, 158(1–3), 264–265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.06.017
Ross, C. A. (2015). Problems With DSM–5 Somatic Symptom Disorder. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 16(4), 341–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2014.989558
Ross, C. A. (2017). Future Directions in Vitamin D Research in Psychiatry. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 205(10), 816–817. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000731
Ross, C. A. (2019). Problems With Factitious Disorder, Malingering, and Somatic Symptoms in DSM-5. Psychosomatics, 60(4), 432–433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psym.2018.11.003
Ross, C. A. (2020). Voices: Are They Dissociative or Psychotic? Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 208(9), 658–662. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001206
Ross, C. A. (2021). The Dissociative Taxon and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 22(5), 555–562. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2020.1869645
Ross, C. A., & Browning, E. (2018). Altered states of consciousness among inpatients in a Trauma Program. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 19(5), 596–606. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2018.1451807
Ross, C. A., & Ellason, J. W. (2005). Discriminating among Diagnostic Categories Using the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule. Psychological Reports, 96(2), 445–453. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.96.2.445-453
Ross, C. A., & Pam, A. (Eds.). (1995). Pseudoscience in biological psychiatry: blaming the body. Wiley & Sons.
Ross, C. A., Ridgway, J., & George, N. (2020). Maladaptive Daydreaming, Dissociation, and the Dissociative Disorders. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, 2(2), 53–61. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.prcp.20190050
Ross, C. A., Schroeder, E., & Ness, L. (2013). Dissociation and Symptoms of Culture-Bound Syndromes in North America: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 14(2), 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2013.724338
Ross, C. A., Siddiqui, A. R., & Matas, M. (1987). DSM-III: Problems in Diagnosis of Paranoia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 32(2), 146–148. https://doi.org/10.1177/070674378703200212
Ross, C. A., Somer, E., & Goode, C. (2018). Reliability of the Dissociative Trance Disorder Interview Schedule: A preliminary report. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 19(2), 176–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2017.1329774
Ross, M. D. (2013). Structural dissociation: a proposed modification of the theory (1st ed). Manitou Communications.
Spittles, B. (2018). Better Understanding Psychosis: A Psychospiritual Challenge to Medical Psychiatry [Dissertation, Murdoch University]. https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Better-understanding-psychosis-A-psychospiritual-challenge/991005541562007891/filesAndLinks?index=0
Spittles, B. (2022). Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations: Engaging and Better Understanding the Madness and Spiritual Emergence Nexus. Aeon Books.
Spittles, B. (2023). Better Understanding Psychosis: Psychospiritual Considerations in Clinical Settings. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 63(2), 246–254. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820904622
Szabo, A., Akkouh, I. A., Ueland, T., Lagerberg, T. V., Dieset, I., Bjella, T., Aukrust, P., Le Hellard, S., Stavrum, A.-K., Melle, I., Andreassen, O. A., & Djurovic, S. (2020). Cannabis Use Is Associated With Increased Levels of Soluble gp130 in Schizophrenia but Not in Bipolar Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 642. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00642
Szabo, A., O‘Connell, K. S., Ueland, T., Sheikh, M. A., Agartz, I., Andreou, D., Aukrust, P., Boye, B., Bøen, E., Drange, O. K., Elvsåshagen, T., Engh, J. A., Hope, S., Collier Høegh, M., Joa, I., Johnsen, E., Kroken, R. A., Vik Lagerberg, T., Lekva, T., … Djurovic, S. (2022). Increased circulating IL-18 levels in severe mental disorders indicate systemic inflammasome activation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 99, 299–306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.10.017
Wedervang-Resell, K., & Szabo, A. (2023). The immunopsychiatry of early-onset psychosis. In Adolescent Psychosis(pp. 153–175). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-89832-4.00013-5
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Berghmans, C. (2020). Thérapies complémentaires et alternatives et spiritualité : impacts sur la santé, une revue de questions. L’information psychiatrique, 96(10), 751–759. https://doi.org/10.1684/ipe.2020.2187
Berghmans, C. (2022). The concept of the “thought-form” in esoteric and spiritual therapeutic traditions, and its complementarity with the process of visualization and symbolic efficacy: A working hypothesis. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 22(2), 131–152. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.842875419806592
Berghmans, C. (2023a). L’impact de l’exposition à la nature (bain de forêts) sur la santé mentale : une revue d’études contrôlées et randomisées et une analyse des processus d’action. L’Évolution Psychiatrique, S001438552300083X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2023.06.003
Berghmans, C. (2023b). L’impact des approches thérapeutiques basées sur la spiritualité dans le champ de la santé mentale au niveau de l’anxiété : une revue exploratoire de la littérature de travaux contrôlés et randomisés. Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique, 181(9), 791–801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2023.04.002
Berghmans, C., & Weiss, A. (2021). L’approche méditative de concentration au sein des prises en charge thérapeutiques et son impact sur la santé mentale : une revue de la littérature sur des essais cliniques contrôlés et randomisés. Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique, 179(9), 805–811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2021.04.004
Berghmans, C., & Weiss, A. (2022). L’influence de la dimension spirituelle comme dynamique thérapeutique complémentaire dans les pratiques de méditation et dans le champ de la santé mentale. L’Évolution Psychiatrique, 87(4), 661–671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2021.12.006
Bragdon, E. (1993). A sourcebook for helping people with spiritual problems (2nd ed).
Bragdon, E. (2012). Resources for extraordinary healing: schizophrenia, bipolar and other serious mental illnesses. Lightening Up Press.
Bragdon, E. (2013). The Call of Spiritual Emergency. EBookIt.com.
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