Barbara W Lex
Biographic Data
| ID | 96255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara W Lex |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lex |
| SIGNATURE | LEX B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Native American Postcolonial Psychology
Native American Postcolonial Psychology. Eduardo Duran and Bonnie Duran. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 227 pp
Native American Postcolonial Psychology
Impact of maternal alcoholism on separation of children from their mothers
Patterns of maternal child co-residence among 25 alcoholic women incarcerated for drunk driving are examined. Two-thirds of these mothers reported significant periods of time, not due to incarceration, when minor children did not reside with them. Fewer than half of the placements were mandated by child-protective services. Having two or more children while actively alcoholic or residing with a substance abuser correlated strongly with separate r…
Ritual Criticism
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Narcotics Addicts' Hustling Strategies
Narcotics addicts often employ deception in “hustles” that appear spontaneous. Rather, they intentionally manipulate the potential ambiguity inherent in all social interactions, taking advantage of differential meanings that may be attributed to social settings, economic behaviors, or valuable assets. The purpose of the hustling process is to convey an illusion of an indisputable “reality” wherein the objects of the hustle remain naive while rewa…
Measurement of Alcohol Consumption in Fieldwork Settings
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Recent contributions to the study of ritual trance
Michael S. Laguere. Voodoo Heritage. Foreword by Vera Rubin. Beverly Hills/London, Sage Publications. 229 pp. Glossary, bibliography, index. $24.00. Richard Katz. Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Jung. Foreword by Richard B. Lee. Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. xix + 329 pp. Map, photographs, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00 Michael Lambeck. Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. New…
Addenda to the May Ethical Dilemma
The Context of Schizophrenia and Shamanism
Malignant Malpractice
General and Theoretical
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama . T. J. Scheff
Psychology versus anthropology in drug use studies
James V. Spotts and Franklin C. Shontz. Cocaine Users: A Representative Case Approach. New York: The Free Press, 1980. x + 517 pp. Tables, Index. $ 19.91, cloth
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
A number of investigators are agreed that the popular medical systems of tribal, peasant, and allied peoples are "effective." Most of the literature closely examining that effectiveness focuses on the ethnopharmacological dimensions of the healing systems and generally ignores psychosocial factors. Recent developments in psychophysiology may offer insights into these neglected areas. The specific idea to be examined here is that successful "gener…
Sociocultural research contributions to alcohol studies
B. Kissin and H. Begleiter, eds. Social Aspects of Alcoholism. The Biology of Alcoholism. Vol. 4. New York: Plenum Press, 1976. xxiv + 643 pp. List of contributors, contents of earlier volumes, chapter references, index. J. Leland. Firewater Myths. Monograph No. 11. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1976. xv + 158 pp. Tables, charts, bibliography, index of subjects. J. B. Roebuck and W. Frese. The Rendezvous: A Case Study of…
Developments in the Field of Drug Abuse
General, Applied, and Theoretical
Heterodox structuralism
Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. and Eugene G. d'Aquili. Biogenetic Structuralism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. 211 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $10.00 (cloth)
Hallucination, healing, and trance
Felicitas D. Goodman, Jeannette H. Henney, and Esther Pressel. Trance, Healing, and Hallucination: Three Field Studies in Religious Experience. Contemporary Religious Movements: A Wiley‐Interscience Series, edited by Irving I. Zaretsky. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xxiii + 388 pp. Figures, bibliography and index. $12.50
In Search of the Primitive
Voodoo Death
Extant physiological explanations of "voodoo death" are augmented with information about neurophysiological research on sensitization, or tuning, of the autonomic nervous system. The process of suggestion is defined as incorporating both an automatic and cognitive component in tuned individuals; the significance of autonomic tuning in cause and cure of psychosomatic illness and in voodoo death is explored
Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
A number of investigators are agreed that the popular medical systems of tribal, peasant, and allied peoples are "effective." Most of the literature closely examining that effectiveness focuses on the ethnopharmacological dimensions of the healing systems and generally ignores psychosocial factors. Recent developments in psychophysiology may offer insights into these neglected areas. The specific idea to be examined here is that successful "gener…
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Voodoo Death
Extant physiological explanations of "voodoo death" are augmented with information about neurophysiological research on sensitization, or tuning, of the autonomic nervous system. The process of suggestion is defined as incorporating both an automatic and cognitive component in tuned individuals; the significance of autonomic tuning in cause and cure of psychosomatic illness and in voodoo death is explored
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Narcotics Addicts' Hustling Strategies
Narcotics addicts often employ deception in “hustles” that appear spontaneous. Rather, they intentionally manipulate the potential ambiguity inherent in all social interactions, taking advantage of differential meanings that may be attributed to social settings, economic behaviors, or valuable assets. The purpose of the hustling process is to convey an illusion of an indisputable “reality” wherein the objects of the hustle remain naive while rewa…
The Context of Schizophrenia and Shamanism
Malignant Malpractice
Recent contributions to the study of ritual trance
Michael S. Laguere. Voodoo Heritage. Foreword by Vera Rubin. Beverly Hills/London, Sage Publications. 229 pp. Glossary, bibliography, index. $24.00. Richard Katz. Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Jung. Foreword by Richard B. Lee. Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. xix + 329 pp. Map, photographs, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00 Michael Lambeck. Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. New…
Voodoo Death
Extant physiological explanations of "voodoo death" are augmented with information about neurophysiological research on sensitization, or tuning, of the autonomic nervous system. The process of suggestion is defined as incorporating both an automatic and cognitive component in tuned individuals; the significance of autonomic tuning in cause and cure of psychosomatic illness and in voodoo death is explored
Hallucination, healing, and trance
Felicitas D. Goodman, Jeannette H. Henney, and Esther Pressel. Trance, Healing, and Hallucination: Three Field Studies in Religious Experience. Contemporary Religious Movements: A Wiley‐Interscience Series, edited by Irving I. Zaretsky. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xxiii + 388 pp. Figures, bibliography and index. $12.50
In Search of the Primitive
General, Applied, and Theoretical
Heterodox structuralism
Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. and Eugene G. d'Aquili. Biogenetic Structuralism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. 211 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $10.00 (cloth)
Developments in the Field of Drug Abuse
Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
A number of investigators are agreed that the popular medical systems of tribal, peasant, and allied peoples are "effective." Most of the literature closely examining that effectiveness focuses on the ethnopharmacological dimensions of the healing systems and generally ignores psychosocial factors. Recent developments in psychophysiology may offer insights into these neglected areas. The specific idea to be examined here is that successful "gener…
Sociocultural research contributions to alcohol studies
B. Kissin and H. Begleiter, eds. Social Aspects of Alcoholism. The Biology of Alcoholism. Vol. 4. New York: Plenum Press, 1976. xxiv + 643 pp. List of contributors, contents of earlier volumes, chapter references, index. J. Leland. Firewater Myths. Monograph No. 11. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1976. xv + 158 pp. Tables, charts, bibliography, index of subjects. J. B. Roebuck and W. Frese. The Rendezvous: A Case Study of…
Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama . T. J. Scheff
Psychology versus anthropology in drug use studies
James V. Spotts and Franklin C. Shontz. Cocaine Users: A Representative Case Approach. New York: The Free Press, 1980. x + 517 pp. Tables, Index. $ 19.91, cloth
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
General and Theoretical
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Malignant Malpractice
Recent contributions to the study of ritual trance
Michael S. Laguere. Voodoo Heritage. Foreword by Vera Rubin. Beverly Hills/London, Sage Publications. 229 pp. Glossary, bibliography, index. $24.00. Richard Katz. Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Jung. Foreword by Richard B. Lee. Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. xix + 329 pp. Map, photographs, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00 Michael Lambeck. Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. New…
Addenda to the May Ethical Dilemma
The Context of Schizophrenia and Shamanism
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Measurement of Alcohol Consumption in Fieldwork Settings
Narcotics Addicts' Hustling Strategies
Narcotics addicts often employ deception in “hustles” that appear spontaneous. Rather, they intentionally manipulate the potential ambiguity inherent in all social interactions, taking advantage of differential meanings that may be attributed to social settings, economic behaviors, or valuable assets. The purpose of the hustling process is to convey an illusion of an indisputable “reality” wherein the objects of the hustle remain naive while rewa…
Ritual Criticism
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Impact of maternal alcoholism on separation of children from their mothers
Patterns of maternal child co-residence among 25 alcoholic women incarcerated for drunk driving are examined. Two-thirds of these mothers reported significant periods of time, not due to incarceration, when minor children did not reside with them. Fewer than half of the placements were mandated by child-protective services. Having two or more children while actively alcoholic or residing with a substance abuser correlated strongly with separate r…
Native American Postcolonial Psychology
Native American Postcolonial Psychology. Eduardo Duran and Bonnie Duran. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 227 pp
Native American Postcolonial Psychology
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