Marlene Dobkin De Ríos

Datos Biográficos

ID3615565
NOMBREMarlene Dobkin De Ríos
NOMBRESMarlene Dobkin
APELLIDODe Ríos
FIRMADE RIOS M D
AFILIACIONESCalifornia State University, Fullerton
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS65
TOTAL DE CITAS138
TOTAL COMO AUTOR65
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1968
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
ÍNDICE H7

  • Alter Ego Representations in San Agustin Monolithic Sculptures

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2009

    This article examines the evidence for plant hallucinogenic use (possibly Brugmansia, Brunfelsia chiricaspi, Desfontainia R., Anadenanthera peregrina, Banisteriopsis sps, Psychotropia viridis and Virola theidora) by the San Agustin culture, an extinct peoples who resided in the Magdelena River area of Colombia from the third century B.C. until the sixteenth century A.D. Based on thematic materials gathered from a cross-cultural survey of plant ha…

  • Society for Psychological Anthropology

    Open AccessKathleen Barlow, Tom Weisner et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006

  • Ecstasy

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2006

    (2006). Ecstasy: In and About Altered States. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 317-319

  • Mea Culpa

    Open AccessMarlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEAnthropology News2006Citada por: 3

  • Interview with Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo Urban Shaman, by Roger Rumrrill

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2005

    Roger Rumrrill, a journalist headquartered in Lima, Peru who is a noted expert on the Peruvian Amazon, interviewed Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo urban shaman in Pucallpa, who utilizes ayahuasca in curing rituals. Sr. Arrévalo comments on the phenomenon known as drug tourism, where urban men and women provide tours for foreigners, for a price, to experience drug-induced mystical experiences in urban settings like Iquitos and Pucallpa, Peru, as wel…

  • Interview with Jeffrey Bronfman, Representative Mestre for the Uniâo do Vegetal Church in the United States

    Marlene Dobkin De Ríos, Charles S GrobARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2005

    A telephone interview was held in November of 2004 with Mr. Jeffrey Bronfman, representative mestre for the União do Vegetal Church in the United States, which utilizes ayahuasca as a religious sacrament. At the time of this writing, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which a large quantity of the ayahuasca tea was seized in the U.S. destined for sacramental use in church ritual. Mr. Bronfman discusses his church's attempt to see…

  • Ayahuasca in Adolescence

    Evelyn Doering-Silveira, Enrique López et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2005

    The purpose of the study was to evaluate neuropsychologically adolescents who use ayahuasca in a religious context. A battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to adolescents who use ayahuasca. These subjects were compared to a matched control group of adolescents who did not use ayahuasca. The controls were matched with regards to sex, age, and education. The neuropsychological battery included tests of speeded attention, visual searc…

  • Ayahuasca in Adolescence

    Marlene Dobkin De Ríos, Charles S Grob et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2005

    Qualitative research was conducted in Brazil among 28 ayahuasca-consuming adolescents members of the União do Vegetal Church, and 28 adolescents who never used ayahuasca. They were compared on a number of qualitative variables, including vignettes measuring moral and ethical concerns. Psychocultural studies utilizing co-occurences of variables in the realm of qualitative studies are useful in understanding and complementing quantitative studies a…

  • Ayahuasca in Adolescence

    Dartiu Xavier Da Silveira, Charles S Grob et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2005

    Ayahuasca is believed to be harmless for those (including adolescents) drinking it within a religious setting. Nevertheless controlled studies on the mental/ psychiatric status of ritual hallucinogenic ayahuasca concoction consumers are still lacking. In this study, 40 adolescents from a Brazilian ayahuasca sect were compared with 40 controls matched on sex, age, and educational background for psychiatric symptomatology. Screening scales for depr…

  • Report on Psychoactive Drug Use Among Adolescents Using Ayahuasca Within a Religious Context

    Evelyn Doering-Silveira, Charles S Grob et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2005

    Ritual use of ayahuasca within the context of the Brazilian ayahuasca churches often starts during late childhood or early adolescence. Premature access to psychoactive drugs may represent a risk factor for drug misuse. Conversely, religious affiliation seems to play a protective role in terms of substance abuse. The objective of this study was to describe patterns of drug use in a sample of adolescents using ayahuasca within a religious setting.…

  • Hallucinogens and Redemption

    Marlene Dobkin De Ríos, Charles S Grob et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2002

    This article examines drug substitution with regard to hallucinogens (ayahuasca, ibogaine, peyote and LSD) set within the concept of redemption. The model examines both religious and secular approaches to the contemporary use of hallucinogens in drug substitution, both by scientists and in religious settings worldwide. The redemptive model posits that the proper use of one psychoactive substance within a spiritual or clinical context helps to fre…

  • What We Can Learn From Shamanic Healing

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2002Citada por: 2Referencias: 7

    The author, a medical anthropologist and licensed psychotherapist, draws on a database of 700 Latino immigrant families whom she has treated to demonstrate concepts and techniques of psychotherapeutic intervention that are derived from shamanic roots in the immigrant’s original culture. Congruences may exist between the shamanic techniques of the coastal and Amazonian regions of Peru and 3 Western psychotherapy techniques—hypnosis, behavior modif…

  • In Memory of Oscar Janiger, Pioneer in Psychedelic Research

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2001

  • The Duboisia Genus, Australian Aborigines and Suggestibility

    Marlene Dobkin De Ríos, Ronni StachalekARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1999

    Plant hallucinogens, such as those of the Duboisia genus called pituri, have been used by tribal elders in Australian aboriginal populations to create managed states of consciousness, to provide their youth with a fast-paced educational experience, and to inculcate values, beliefs and religious tenets. Use of the suggestible states created by such substances (particularly in pubertal initiatory rituals marking the transition to manhood) are part …

  • Reaching New Highs

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1998

  • A Response to Lucas's “Entheology”

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1995

  • General/Theoretical Anthropology

    Open AccessMarlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1994

  • Vine of the Soul

    Marlene Dobkin De Ríos, Charles S GrobARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1993

    Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 25(2), pp. 177–178

  • Amazon Healer

    T M Luhrmann, Tanya Luhrmann et al.ARTICLEMan1993Citada por: 5

  • Twenty-Five Years of Hallucinogenic Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Open AccessMarlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1993Citada por: 3Referencias: 16

  • Adolescent Drug Use in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Open AccessCharles S Grob, Charles Grob et al.ARTICLEJournal of Drug Issues1992Citada por: 12Referencias: 3

    An analysis is made of adolescent hallucinogenic plant ingestion during initiation rituals among Australian Aboriginal males, Tshogana Tsonga females and among Chumash youth of Southern California. This use pattern contrasts with abusive patterns of drug abuse found among American adolescents. Findings indicate the existence of managed altered states of consciousness in the tribal societies studied, where plant hallucinogens are given by elders t…

  • Division 32 Report

    Christopher M Aanstoos, Frederick J Wertz et al.ARTICLEThe Humanistic Psychologist1989

  • Shamanism and Altered States of Consciousness

    Marlene Dobkin De Ríos, Michael James Winkelman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1989

    In this article, the issue of shamanism and altered states of consciousness (ASC) is reviewed from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. It is suggested that in spite of considerable differences in the uses of these terms, there are conceptual and empirical grounds for distinction among different types of trance practitioners. The authors argue that shamanism is a cultural adaptation of hunting and gathering societies to the biologi…

  • A Modern-Day Shamanistic Healer in the Peruvian Amazon

    Marlene Dobkin De RíosARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1989

    The functions and successes of shamanistic healers are addressed in the context of psychoneuroimmunology, which allows a description of how therapeutic success is achieved via the symbolic manipulation of biological processes. These perspectives reinforce the continued importance of traditional shamanistic healers in the contemporary world. This is illustrated by the activities of a Peruvian healer who utilizes both psychoactive plant substances …

  • Psychoactive Properties of !Kung Bushman Medicine Plants

    Michael James Winkelman, Michael Winkelman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1989

    This article addresses some of the recent controversy over the role of psychoactive substances in the !Kung Bushmen healing ceremonies and trance induction. Although some contemporary works on the !Kung and their healing ceremonies give no evidence of the use of psychoactive plants, an examination of the available biochemical and pharmacological literature on the properties of these plants indicates that most contain psychoactive or toxic substan…