| Titel: | Creativity and altered states of consciousness |
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| Autor: | Khatami, M |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Psychiatric Annals |
| Jahr: | 1978 |
| Band: | 8 |
| Heft: | 3 |
| Seiten: | 57 - 64 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Abstract: | Discusses creativity and altered states of consciousness (ASC, in terms of variables that play a major role in ASCs, characteristics of ASC, and how they are used by humans. When a creative act takes place, the creator has broken free of logic, deductive reasoning, and familiar approaches and is in an ASC. ASCs include daydreaming, sleep, dreams, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, hysteria, religious experience, meditation, and states induced by drugs or yoga. Variables that play a major role in ASC production are (a) an increase in environmental stimulation or motor activity; and (c) increased or decreased alertness or mental activity. Common characteristics of ASCs include alteration in time sense, alteration in cognition, decrease in controls, change in body image, change in emotional expression, perceptual distortions, sense of inexplicability of the experience, feeling of rejuvenation, change in meaning or significance, and hypersuggestibility. ASCs serve both adaptive and maladaptive functions, and are particularly evident in inventions and discovery. Creative persons, for example, may use ASC time distortion to accomplish a greater amount of work than others during the same amount of time. (28 ref) |