Hungry for ecstasy : trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / / Sharon Klayman Farber.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Farber, Sharon Klayman.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 413 p.

"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...

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.