Orli Dahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 934805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orli Dahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orli |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahan |
| SIGNATURE | DAHAN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Hai Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7649-3361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Flow and Rupture: BDSM, Subjectivity, and the Case for Soft Logic
Reclaiming Agency Through Birth: Birth Mode, Postpartum Mental Health, and Ethical Responsibilities in High-Risk Pregnancies
Objective This study examines whether mode of birth is associated with postpartum psychological distress among women who experienced high-risk versus low-risk pregnancies. It adds an ethical perspective to the literature by considering how medicalization of birth may differentially affect women’s autonomy and well-being across pregnancy risk contexts. Method In a cohort of 138 women who gave birth at a northern Israeli hospital (January to Septem…
Embracing flow: Exploring the protective role of birth’s flow state on postpartum Well-being across birth modes
Bleeding” is not the word: Autoethnographic insights into abortion and the female body's adaptive ejections
This article explores the embodied experience of medication-induced abortion through a critical feminist and evolutionary lens. Drawing on personal diaries and narrative, I examine how the physiological process of abortion, particularly the unexpected intensity of the expulsion of large tissue clots, evoked associations with other adaptive ejection functions of the female body: menstruation, childbirth and lactation. I argue that the term “bleedi…
Where are the birthing women? Rethinking agency, culture, and explanation in evolutionary psychology
This paper examines the systematic omission of childbirth from evolutionary psychology, arguing that this lacuna reflects deeper epistemological and ideological limitations within the field. While evolutionary psychology frequently theorizes reproductive behavior, particularly mating and parenting – it largely ignores the behavioral and psychological dimensions of the birthing process itself. Through a critical textual analysis of 10 major evolut…
The riddle of the extreme ends of the birth experience: Birthing consciousness and its fragility
Navigating intensive altered states of consciousness: How can the set and setting key parameters promote the science of human birth
The subjective childbirth experience is crucial from a public health standpoint. There is a correlation between a negative childbirth experience and a poor mental state after birth, with effects that go far beyond the postpartum (PP) period. This paper offers a new approach as to how birthing experiences, and birth in general, can be navigated. The theory of set and setting proves that psychedelic experiences are shaped, first and foremost, by th…
Not just mechanical birthing bodies: Articulating the impact of imbalanced power relationships in the birth arena on women’s subjectivity, agency, and consciousness
The experiences of birthing women are essential to optimal birth outcomes. Here we examine how obstetric practices and behaviors in the birth arena result in subjugation of birthing women and their treatment as birthing (mechanical) bodies. We demonstrate that cultural practices that relegate women's consciousness and agency increase the likelihood of harmful effects caused unintentionally by medical activity. We suggest a corrective. The concept…
Birthing Consciousness as a Case of Adaptive Altered State of Consciousness Associated With Transient Hypofrontality
In this article, I present the concept of “birthing consciousness,” a psychophysical altered state of women that can occur during natural and undisturbed birth. I demonstrate that this altered state of consciousness (ASC) has phenomenological and cognitive features of hypofrontality; thus, birthing consciousness probably shares a similar brain mechanism to that postulated by the transient-hypofrontality theory (THT). I argue that until recently (…
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Birthing Consciousness as a Case of Adaptive Altered State of Consciousness Associated With Transient Hypofrontality
In this article, I present the concept of “birthing consciousness,” a psychophysical altered state of women that can occur during natural and undisturbed birth. I demonstrate that this altered state of consciousness (ASC) has phenomenological and cognitive features of hypofrontality; thus, birthing consciousness probably shares a similar brain mechanism to that postulated by the transient-hypofrontality theory (THT). I argue that until recently (…
Not just mechanical birthing bodies: Articulating the impact of imbalanced power relationships in the birth arena on women’s subjectivity, agency, and consciousness
The experiences of birthing women are essential to optimal birth outcomes. Here we examine how obstetric practices and behaviors in the birth arena result in subjugation of birthing women and their treatment as birthing (mechanical) bodies. We demonstrate that cultural practices that relegate women's consciousness and agency increase the likelihood of harmful effects caused unintentionally by medical activity. We suggest a corrective. The concept…
The riddle of the extreme ends of the birth experience: Birthing consciousness and its fragility
Navigating intensive altered states of consciousness: How can the set and setting key parameters promote the science of human birth
The subjective childbirth experience is crucial from a public health standpoint. There is a correlation between a negative childbirth experience and a poor mental state after birth, with effects that go far beyond the postpartum (PP) period. This paper offers a new approach as to how birthing experiences, and birth in general, can be navigated. The theory of set and setting proves that psychedelic experiences are shaped, first and foremost, by th…
Where are the birthing women? Rethinking agency, culture, and explanation in evolutionary psychology
This paper examines the systematic omission of childbirth from evolutionary psychology, arguing that this lacuna reflects deeper epistemological and ideological limitations within the field. While evolutionary psychology frequently theorizes reproductive behavior, particularly mating and parenting – it largely ignores the behavioral and psychological dimensions of the birthing process itself. Through a critical textual analysis of 10 major evolut…
Flow and Rupture: BDSM, Subjectivity, and the Case for Soft Logic
Reclaiming Agency Through Birth: Birth Mode, Postpartum Mental Health, and Ethical Responsibilities in High-Risk Pregnancies
Objective This study examines whether mode of birth is associated with postpartum psychological distress among women who experienced high-risk versus low-risk pregnancies. It adds an ethical perspective to the literature by considering how medicalization of birth may differentially affect women’s autonomy and well-being across pregnancy risk contexts. Method In a cohort of 138 women who gave birth at a northern Israeli hospital (January to Septem…
Embracing flow: Exploring the protective role of birth’s flow state on postpartum Well-being across birth modes
Bleeding” is not the word: Autoethnographic insights into abortion and the female body's adaptive ejections
This article explores the embodied experience of medication-induced abortion through a critical feminist and evolutionary lens. Drawing on personal diaries and narrative, I examine how the physiological process of abortion, particularly the unexpected intensity of the expulsion of large tissue clots, evoked associations with other adaptive ejection functions of the female body: menstruation, childbirth and lactation. I argue that the term “bleedi…
Psychology (5 works) · Consciousness (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Childbirth (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)