Description
This book offers an uncompromising and unapologetic phenomenological study of altered states of consciousness in an attempt to understand the structure of human consciousness. Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, it sets out to decipher the inextricable link between consciousness, body, and world. This link will be established through the presentation of in-depth phenomenological research conducted with former prisoners of war (POWs) and senior meditators. Focusing on two such disparate groups improves our understanding of the nature of the subjective experience in extreme situations - when our sense of boundary is rigid and we are disconnected both from the body and the world (POWs); and when our sense of boundary is fluid and we feel unified with the world (meditators). Based on empirical-phenomenological research, this book will explain how the body that is from the outset thrown into the intersubjective world shapes the structure of consciousness.
Author: Yochai Ataria
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/31/2023
Pages: 155
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9783030868369
ISBN10: 3030868362
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Psychology | Applied Psychology
About the Author
Yochai Ataria, PhD, Associate Professor, Tel Hai Academic College, Israel