The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
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梦想药店：化学改变的意识状态
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2001
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J. Hobson
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在这本书中，J·艾伦·霍布森基于我们清醒时大脑化学如何平衡，以及当我们入睡和做梦时这种平衡如何变化的知识，提供了对意识变化状态的新理解。他借鉴了最近的研究，这些研究使我们能够解释迷幻药物是如何破坏这种平衡的，以及类似的失衡如何可能导致抑郁症和精神分裂症。他还利用这项工作，扩大了我们对某些药物如何纠正失衡和恢复大脑自然平衡的理解。霍布森解释了化学平衡的概念，即我们所知道的大脑化学物质--神经调节器--在一天中对正常意识状态的调节。他惊人地证实了这一原理，即每一种对意识有改变作用的药物都与大脑自身的改变意识的化学物质相互作用。在“医药药店”一节中，霍布森描述了用来对抗焦虑和失眠、提升和降低情绪、消除或减少精神分裂症的幻觉和妄想的药物。他讨论了服用这些药物所涉及的风险，包括不分青红皂白地长期使用可能导致新的疾病。在《休闲杂货店》一书中，霍布森讨论了迷幻药物、麻醉性止痛和天然药物。他还考虑了合法和非法吸毒之间的区别。在《心理药店》的结束语中，他讨论了心灵是变化的媒介，而不仅仅是中介者，并纠正了许多阻碍精神分析进步的错误假设和做法。
In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium. Hobson explains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal states of consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presents striking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects on consciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called "The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raise and lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. He discusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorders caused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discusses psychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.