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19 results for "PTSD"

T_2_12 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_12 — Psychology of Trauma and PTSD

Psychological trauma — exposure to events involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence — can produce lasting alterations in cognition, emotion, arousal, and behavior. Post-Traumatic Stress Dis

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T_2_21 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_21 — Collective Trauma Psychology

Collective trauma refers to the psychological impact of traumatic events experienced by entire communities, populations, or cultural groups — events such as genocide, slavery, colonialism, war, natural disasters, and pan

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Y_5_20 Verified Altered States

Y_5_20 — MDMA Pharmacology: Entactogen Mechanisms, Therapeutic Potential, and Risks

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), commonly known as ecstasy or molly, is a synthetic entactogen (from Latin tactus, "touching within") that produces profound feelings of emotional closeness, empathy, trust, and w

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U_5_07 Verified Art, Music & Culture

U_5_07 — Art Therapy and Healing Through Art

Art therapy — the clinical use of art-making within a therapeutic relationship to improve psychological well-being — and the broader phenomenon of healing through creative expression bridge the domains of art, psychology

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X_2_03 Verified Medicine & Healing

X_2_03 — Psychedelic Medicine: Clinical Evidence and Renaissance

The psychedelic renaissance — the resurgence of clinical research into psychedelic compounds after decades of prohibition — represents one of the most significant paradigm shifts in modern psychiatry. Psilocybin for trea

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X_5_26 Verified Medicine & Healing

X_5_26 — Psychedelic Medicine: The Johns Hopkins Center and the Therapeutic Renaissance

The psychedelic therapy renaissance — centered at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research (established 2019, originally launched as a research program in 2000) — represents one of the most sig

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K_4_06 Verified Consciousness

K_4_06 — Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Intergenerational Transmission

Collective trauma — the psychological impact of catastrophic events on entire communities, nations, or peoples — and its intergenerational transmission across generations is one of the most important intersections of psy

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INTERDOC_59 — Intergenerational Trauma: A Three-Channel Synthesis (Epigenetic, Psychological, Cultural)

Trauma is empirically heritable — but not through any single mechanism. The dominant public framing (epigenetics-as-Lamarckism) is overconfident; the dominant academic counter-framing (it's all attachment / it's all cult

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INTERDOC_77 — Virtual Reality as a Consciousness Laboratory: What the Self Reveals When You Move Its Walls

The foundational insight from two decades of VR consciousness research is deceptively simple: the brain does not receive reality — it votes on what is most probably real. When VR provides sensory evidence that overrides

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ZC_5_21 Verified Social Science

ZC_5_21 — Intergenerational Trauma: Epigenetic Inheritance and Collective Wounds

Intergenerational trauma (also transgenerational or historical trauma) refers to the transmission of traumatic effects from one generation to subsequent generations through psychological, behavioral, social, and — contro

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T_2_09 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_09 — Fear, Anxiety, and Phobias

Fear and anxiety are functionally distinct emotion systems: fear is a present-oriented defensive response to immediate threats (fight-flight-freeze), while anxiety is a future-oriented state of apprehension about potenti

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L_4_17 Credible Genetics & Origins

L_4_17 — Transgenerational Epigenetic Trauma

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of trauma — the hypothesis that severe stress, famine, or psychological trauma experienced by one generation can alter the epigenetic marks (DNA methylation, histone modifications

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Y_4_14 Verified Altered States

Y_4_14 — Virtual Reality, Immersive Technology, and Altered Perception

Virtual reality (VR) and immersive technologies create genuine altered states of perception — not merely visual illusions but deep modifications of body ownership, spatial awareness, self-identity, and emotional processi

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Y_4_07 Verified Altered States

Y_4_07 — Hypnosis — History, Neuroscience, and Therapeutic Application

Hypnosis has evolved from Franz Mesmer's "animal magnetism" theory (1770s) through James Braid's neurological reframing (1843) and James Esdaile's surgical applications in India to Milton Erickson's indirect hypnotherapy

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Y_2_06 Verified Altered States

Y_2_06 — Dissociation, Depersonalization, and Derealization

Dissociation — the disruption of normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, behavior, and sense of self — represents one of the most revealing natural experiments for understan

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Y_1_04 Verified Altered States

Y_1_04 — Psychedelic Renaissance — Clinical Research and Consciousness

The psychedelic renaissance — a resurgence of rigorous scientific research on psychedelic substances after decades of prohibition — has produced some of the most significant findings in 21st-century psychiatry and consci

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Y_1_06 Verified Altered States

Y_1_06 — Psychedelic Research — Modern Science and Ancient Entheogen Parallels

Psychedelic research has undergone a dramatic revival since ~2006, with major studies at Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, NYU, and MAPS demonstrating the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, MDMA, and ayahuasca/DM

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ZE_3_21 Credible Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_3_21 — Neuroethics and Memory Manipulation

Neuroethics — the study of ethical, legal, and social implications of neuroscience and neurotechnology — has emerged as a critical discipline as advances in brain imaging, neuropharmacology, and neurostimulation create u

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I_5_14 Credible UAP Disclosure

I_5_14 — Witness Psychology: Perception, Memory, and UAP Testimony

The evaluation of UAP evidence depends critically on the psychology of perception, memory, and testimony — because a large proportion of UAP evidence consists of human reports. Understanding how observers perceive, encod

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