The Psychology of Consciousness: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783030906917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Opis

This book talks about the levels of consciousness and their roles in controlling our life and behaviour. The consciousness has a main role in learning human to behave and to live in all life’s situation and ages. This book clarifies these situations in details and the laws that make this system work properly. It provides many solutions and suggestions to control ourselves and our minds and put them in the right way. This book explains many of our behaviours depending on the psychology and the role of the consciousness in the psychiatry, how to treat diseases and mental disorders and how to improve the mental health as well.This subject is not well discussed and detailed in literature so there is a need to give this topic its role in the psychology and in scientific literature too.This book is targeting the consciousness’ levels and the role of these levels in our life and behaviours, so it divides the roles among them as appropriate and in the right way and then the humans can recognize which part is more important than the other and on what they should focus.

Spis treści

Ch. 1

Introduction and History of Consciousness

 

Hashim Talib Hashim, Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan, Mehek Cheema

 

1.1.

Introduction

1.2.

Definition of Consciousness

1.3.

History of Consciousness

1.4.

Theories of Consciousness

1.5.

Questions on the history and theories of consciousness development

Ch. 2

Brain and Mind

 

Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan, Ali Talib Hashim, Hashim Talib Hashim

 

2.1.

Introduction

2.2.

Anatomy of the brain

2.3.

Brain – Mind relationship

2.4.

Consciousness in Medicine

2.5.

Questions on the brain and mind

Ch. 3

Levels of Consciousness

 

Hashim Talib Hashim, Mehek Cheema, Mustafa Hayder Kadhem

 

3.1.

Introduction

3.2.

Unconsious

3.3.

Preconsious

3.4.

Subconsious

3.5.

Conscious

3.6.

Postconscious

3.7.

Questions on Level of Consciouness

Ch. 4

Sleep and Dreaming

 

Saleh Abdul Kareem, Mehek Cheema

 

4.1.

Introduction

4.2.

Sleep mechanism and consciousness

4.3.

Sleep dosorders

4.4.

Dreaming and consiousness

4.5.

Summary

4.6.

Questions on Sleep and Dreaming

Ch. 5

Artificial Consciousness

 

Hashim Talib Hashim, Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan

 

1.1. 

Introduction

 

1.2. 

The definition of Artificial Consciousness

1.3. 

Mechsnims of Artificial intelligence

1.4. 

The differences between Human Consciousness and Artificial Consciousness

1.5. 

Questions on Artificial Consciousness

Ch. 6

Hypnosis and Consciousness

 

Hashim Talib Hashim, Mustafa Hayder Kadhem, Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan

 

6.1.

Introduction

6.2.

Hypnosis Experience

6.3.

How is someone hypnotized?

6.4.

Hypnosis Enhancement and its Recalling of Forgotten Events

6.5.

Hypnosis Force People to Act Against Their Will?

6.6.

Hypnosis as Divided Consciousness

6.7.

Uses of Hypnosis

6.8.

Summary

6.9.

Questions on Hypnosis and Consciousness

Ch. 7

Defense Mechanisms

 

Saleh Abdul Kareem, Hashim Talib Hashim, Mehek Cheema

 

7.1.

Introduction

7.2.

Types

7.3.

The role of defense mechanisms in consciousness

7.4.

Questions on Defense Mechanisms

Ch. 8

Altered States of Consciousness

 

Mustafa Hayder Kadhem, Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan, Ali Talib Hashim

 

8.1.

Introduction

8.2.

Cognitive Neuroscience

8.3.

Dual processing

8.4.

The Two-Track Mind

8.5.

Selective Attention

8.6.

Selective Inattention and Inattentional blindness

8.7.

Meditation

8.8.

Questions on Altered States of Consciousness

Ch. 9

Drugs effects on Consciousness

 

Mustafa Hayder Kadhem, Hashim Talib Hashim. Mekeh Cheema

 

9.1.

Introduction

9.2.

CNS Stimulants

9.3.

CNS Depressants

9.4.

Narcotics

9.5.

Hallucinogens

9.7.

Questions on Drugs effects on Consciousness

Ch. 10

Relativity of the human mind

 

Hashim Talib Hashim, Mehek Cheema

 

10.1.

Introudction

10.2.

Space and Brain

10.3.

Time and the Brain

10.4.

Binding Space and Time with the Brain

10.5.

Theory of cognitive relativity

10.6.

The Absence of Ego

10.7.

Conscious Evolution and the Future of Mankind

10.8.

Language development and consciousness

10.9.

Can animals have human consciousness?

10.10.

Relativity of human behavior

10.11.

Summary

10.12.

Questions on Relativity of the human mind

Ch. 11

Death and Consciousness

 

Hashim Talib Hashim, Ali Talib Hashim, Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan

 

11.1.

Intorudction

11.2.

The difference between consciousness and death

11.3.

Near-Death Experiences

11.4.

Consciousness after clinical death

11.5.

Quaetions on Death and Consciousness

O autorze

Dr. Hashim Talib Hashim is a Researcher and certified international trainer. MBChB in the University of Baghdad / College of Medicine. He has more than 55 papers, many of them were published in international journals. He created the idea of “Postconscious” and “Gene’s communication theory”. He also developed a new treatment technique for infertility with electrical shocks. He has bit portion of his papers in cardiac medicine and surgery. He participated in more than 25 conferences and medical events either nationally and internationally to present his papers and researches. He was awarded many prized for the best paper and best presentation in three competitions. He is also a member of the international global health network that focuses on developing papers in global health related topics. He has his own lab of research in Iraq to work on his ideas and researches.

 

Dr. Athanasios Alexiou has a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1998, a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics Algorithms and Mathematical Modelling in Biology in 2012, a two-years Postdoc Research Fellowship in Neuroinformatic Applications in 2015 from the Ionian University. Nowadays, he serves as a Faculty Member of the Novel Global Community Education Foundation in Australia. He is also the Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the AFNP Med Company in Austria. His main research field is Biomedical Informatics and Bioethics, specializing in Medical Decision Support Systems, Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Biomarkers Modelling. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Frontiers Journals Genetics, Pharmacology and Sociology in the Section of ELSI (Ethical-Legal-Social Implications) in Science and Genetics, Guest Associate Editor in the Frontiers Neuroscience and Psychology Journal, Section Editor in the Current Alzheimer Research journal and Associate Editorial Board Member in The Open Public Health Journal; he is author/co-author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers in journals/conferences/books/chapters books/workshops; he had participated in several international funded programs; he serves as a Scientific and Program Committee Member in several conferences and as a Reviewer/Member of the Editorial Board of international journals; he supervises diploma theses and internships' programs mainly in Biomedical Informatics and Neurodegeneration Modelling; he has over 20 years of educational experience in teaching Computer Science Lessons and Theory of Algorithms.

Blurb

The subject of consciousness has not, until now, been well documented and discussed in academic literature, and there is a real need to give this topic its due in the larger discussions of psychology and the behavioral sciences. This book explores the many levels of consciousness, and their roles in our life and behavior. The main role of consciousness is to create an awareness of how we as humans live our lives every day in all life stages. This book clarifies these situations in detail, and illustrates the systems, internally and externally, that work together. This book provides solutions and suggestions on how to have better control over our minds and behavior, the role of the consciousness in psychiatry, how to treat diseases and mental disorders and how to improve overall mental health. This book is divided into easy to understand sections which discuss each level of consciousness, so readers can focus on which elements are important depending on their area of focus and expertise.