People from all walks of life often lose themselves in pursuing counterfeit pleasures - cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, thrill seeking, sex, food, gambling, and on-line fantasies to name just a few. How does the pursuit of pleasure result in compulsion and loss of control? This book addresses this fundamental question.
Offering a psychological perspective on the use and abuse of alcohol and psychoactive drugs, this book covers the theories of why alcohol and other drugs are used, and broad conceptual issues related to the nature of addiction. It offers research on caffeine, and simultaneous multiple drug use, including combinations with antidepressant drugs.
Explores the brain and see what happens when drugs affect its functions. Filled with an array of definitions and historic discoveries about the nervous system, this book deals with the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs.
This pioneering book explores the landscape of human consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics. Author Stanislav Grof shows the relationship between shamanism, near-death experiences, and other mystical and altered states with those induced by psychedelics.
Offers an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", from a psychedelic perspective. This book describes the authors' discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan mediation techniques and psychotropic substances.
Explores the brain and see what happens when drugs affect its functions. Filled with an array of definitions and historic discoveries about the nervous system, this book deals with the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs.