Utopian Dream and Dark Consciousness

Enhancing pharmacy practice with technology: a utopian dream?

JCPH – Vol. 63, n 6 – novembre–décembre 2010 460 (published in 2010 by the Institute for Safe Medi cation Practices Can ada and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute; see www.ismp-canada.org/ barcoding/download/ CanPharmBarcode_ JointTechnicalStatement.pdf). • The CSHP 2015 initiative has an entire goal focused on the application of technology to improve the safety of medication use (Goal 5) (s...

Opium: Reality's Dark Dream

On the book’s cover, Thomas Dormandy’s Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream is advertised to “encompass the entire history of the world’s most fascinating drug.” But at fewer than 400 pages, the book actually reads more like a story, or a series of stories, about opium’s role in various societies. The problem with storytelling, however, is that the whole thing hinges on the use of language. Awkward word...

Mythos, Memory, and Utopian Visions

The dark side of consciousness and the therapeutic relationship.

Following the publication of my 1993 book Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine,1 I received several letters from religious individuals who were profoundly upset. The views of prayer and healing set forth in my book differed from theirs, and they wanted to set me straight. Some of the letters dripped with venom. The writers denounced me as a heretic and blasphemer. The...

Dreams, reality and memory: confabulations in lucid dreamers implicate reality-monitoring dysfunction in dream consciousness

INTRODUCTION Dreams might represent a window on altered states of consciousness with relevance to psychotic experiences, where reality monitoring is impaired. We examined reality monitoring in healthy, non-psychotic individuals with varying degrees of dream awareness using a task designed to assess confabulatory memory errors - a confusion regarding reality whereby information from the past fee...