scholarly journals The Psychology and Parapsychology of Spiritual Emergency

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Storm ◽  
Monika Goretzki
Keyword(s):  
Psychology Students ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Spiritual Identity ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Spiritual Emergency ◽  
Hit Rate ◽  
Paranormal Belief ◽  
Rank Score ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis ◽  
Picture Identification

A defining aspect of Spiritual Emergency (SE) is ‘psychic opening’ which may predict psi performance. This study tested paranormal (psi) performance of individuals who have or have had experiences of spiritual emergency (i.e., ‘SE-Experients’), and compared their performance against controls. The study also assessed psychological aspects of SE to differentiate it from psychosis and other proposed psi-inhibitive symptoms—namely, alogia (i.e., poverty of speech), depression, anxiety, and stress. Two groups of participants were formed: controls (mainly Psychology students) and SE-Experients. Participants either completed the study on computer in the laboratory or online. Questionnaires on spiritual emergency (which includes a subscale on psychic opening), positive symptoms of psychosis, alogia, spiritual identity, paranormal belief, mysticism, depression, anxiety, and stress, were administered to participants, who then completed the Imagery Cultivation (IC) picture-identification psi task, which uses a shamanic-like journeying protocol (Storm & Rock, 2009). The differences between controls and SE-experients on the psi measures, direct hitting (as a percent hit-rate) and mean rank scores, were not significant, but the sum-of-ranks difference was highly significant. Also, SE-experients had a marginally significant mean rank score. Direct hitting did not correlate significantly with any variable, except rank scores, which correlated significantly with psychic opening, spiritual identity, and paranormal belief, and marginally significantly with spiritual emergency. Direct hitting, rank scores, and SE did not correlate significantly with alogia, depression, anxiety, or stress, but the psychosis measure did correlate significantly with alogia, depression, anxiety, stress, and SE. The statistical evidence suggests some proportion of SE-experients experience psychic opening. While SE and psychosis overlap, only SE was predicted by spiritual identity, extrovertive mysticism, and paranormal belief (but not alogia), whereas psychosis was predicted by alogia only.

scholarly journals The multidimensional measurement of the positive symptoms of psychosis

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Steel ◽  
Philippa A. Garety ◽  
Daniel Freeman ◽  
Ellen Craig ◽  
Elizabeth Kuipers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Multidimensional Measurement ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis

Cognitive disorders and negative symptoms as correlates of motivational deficits in psychotic patients

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Schmand ◽  
T. Kuipers ◽  
M. Van Der Gaag ◽  
J. Bosveld ◽  
F. Bulthuis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Cognitive Disorders ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Time On Task ◽  
Reaction Test ◽  
Motivational Deficit ◽  
Energetic Model ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis

SynopsisThe problem of a possible lack of motivation to perform cognitive tasks, which is often encountered in psychotic patients, has been approached from the perspective of the ‘energetics’ of cognition (Hockey et al. 1986) and from the broader clinical context of psychosis as an ‘amotivational syndrome’ and its related negative symptoms.The presence of motivational deficits was investigated in a group of psychotic in-patients (N = 73, and 40 had schizophrenia) compared with a control group of non-psychotic psychiatric in-patients (N = 23). The motivational deficit was operationalized in terms of Sanders's (1983) cognitive–energetic model as a large effect of ‘time-on-task’ during a simple, monotonous reaction test. Significantly more psychotic patients than control patients showed evidence of this type of motivational deficit. The deficit appeared to be related with negative but not with positive symptoms of psychosis. Furthermore, the deficit was shown to be related to the cognitive disorders of psychosis, which have been amply documented in the literature, i.e. disorders of vigilance, verbal memory and distractibility. These results suggest that the cognitive disorders of psychosis are not of a ‘computational’ but of an ‘energetical’, i.e. motivational nature.

Paranormal Belief and College Grade Point Average

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Tobacyk
Keyword(s):  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Lower Grade ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Paranormal Belief ◽  
Belief Scale

The Paranormal Belief Scale and a self-report item concerning college grade point average were given to 307 introductory psychology students. As hypothesized, greater reported belief in both Superstition and in Witchcraft subscales were significantly associated with lower grade point average. These relationships, although statistically significant, were small.

Positive symptoms of psychosis in posttraumatic stress disorder

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 839-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Butler ◽  
Kim T. Mueser ◽  
Joyce Sprock ◽  
David L. Braff
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis

scholarly journals Positive symptoms of psychosis correlate with expression of ubiquitin proteasome genes in peripheral blood

2010 ◽  
Vol 153B (7) ◽  
pp. 1336-1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad A. Bousman ◽  
Gursharan Chana ◽  
Stephen J. Glatt ◽  
Sharon D. Chandler ◽  
Todd May ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Ubiquitin Proteasome ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis

scholarly journals Rethinking Social Cognition in Light of Psychosis: Reciprocal Implications for Cognition and Psychopathology

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Bell ◽  
Kathryn L. Mills ◽  
Gemma Modinos ◽  
Sam Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Social Reasoning ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Cognitive Anthropology ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis

The positive symptoms of psychosis largely involve the experience of illusory social actors, and yet our current measures of social cognition, at best, only weakly predict their presence. We review evidence to suggest that the range of current approaches in social cognition is not sufficient to explain the fundamentally social nature of these experiences. We argue that social agent representation is an important organizing principle for understanding social cognition and that alterations in social agent representation may be a factor in the formation of delusions and hallucination in psychosis. We evaluate the feasibility of this approach in light of clinical and nonclinical studies, developmental research, cognitive anthropology, and comparative psychology. We conclude with recommendations for empirical testing of specific hypotheses and how studies of social cognition could more fully capture the extent of social reasoning and experience in both psychosis and more prosaic mental states.

Exploring the Associations between Social Rank and External Shame with Experiences of Psychosis

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Wood ◽  
Chris Irons
Keyword(s):  
Social Rank ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
External Shame ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis ◽  
The Relationship

Background:Low social rank and external shame have been found to be significantly associated with anxiety and depression. However, their relevance to experiences of psychosis has rarely been explored.Aims:This study aims to examine the relationship of social rank and external shame to personal recovery, depression and positive symptoms in psychosis.Method:A cross sectional correlational design was adopted to examine the relationship between all variables. Fifty-two service users, aged between 18 to 65 years, with experiences of psychosis were recruited for the study. Participants were administered outcome measures examining social rank, external shame, positive symptoms of psychosis, depression and personal recovery. Multiple regression analyses were conducted on the data.Results:Significant correlations were found between all variables. Low social rank was significantly associated with lower reported personal recovery, and higher levels of external shame and depression symptomology. The relationship between external shame and positive symptoms of psychosis and personal recovery was found to be mediated by participants’ level of depression.Conclusion:Findings suggest that social rank and external shame are relevant to those who experience psychosis. Therapeutic approaches may need to focus on perceptions of social rank and external shame in working with experiences of psychosis.

scholarly journals Social and psychological aspects of volunteer activity of psychology students

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina E. Ruslyakova ◽  
◽  
Elena M. Razumova ◽  
Elena Yu. Shpakovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Psychology Students ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Volunteer Activity

scholarly journals The impact of family environment on self-esteem and symptoms in early psychosis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249721
Author(s):  
Lídia Hinojosa-Marqués ◽  
Manel Monsonet ◽  
Thomas R. Kwapil ◽  
Neus Barrantes-Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Early Psychosis ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Patients At Risk ◽  
Positive Symptoms Of Psychosis ◽  
The Impact

Expressed emotion (EE) and self-esteem (SE) have been implicated in the onset and development of paranoia and positive symptoms of psychosis. However, the impact of EE on patients’ SE and ultimately on symptoms in the early stages of psychosis is still not fully understood. The main objectives of this study were to examine whether: (1) patients’ SE mediated the effect of relatives’ EE on patients’ positive symptoms and paranoia; (2) patients’ perceived EE mediated the effect of relatives’ EE on patients’ SE; (3) patients’ SE mediated between patients’ perceived EE and patients’ symptomatology; and (4) patients’ perceived EE and patients’ SE serially mediated the effect of relatives’ EE on patients’ positive symptoms and paranoia. Incipient psychosis patients (at-risk mental states and first-episode of psychosis) and their respective relatives completed measures of EE, SE, and symptoms. Findings indicated that: (1) patients’ perceived EE mediated the link between relatives’ EE and patients’ negative, but not positive, SE; (2) patients’ negative SE mediated the effect of patients’ perceived EE on positive symptoms and paranoia; (3) the association of relatives’ EE with positive symptoms and paranoia was serially mediated by an increased level of patients’ perceived EE leading to increases in negative SE; (4) high levels of patients’ distress moderated the effect of relatives’ EE on symptoms through patients’ perceived EE and negative SE. Findings emphasize that patients’ SE is relevant for understanding how microsocial environmental factors impact formation and expression of positive symptoms and paranoia in early psychosis. They suggest that broader interventions for patients and their relatives aiming at improving family dynamics might also improve patients’ negative SE and symptoms.

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