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The “Good Friday Experiment”: A case study for the Role of Psychedelics in Treatment and Research

Submitted by ehinchcl on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 9:14pm

Placebos and Psychosomatic Symptoms

Submitted by Felicia on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 8:25pm

Psychosomatic symptoms refer to a mind (psych) and physical body (soma) relationship. Illnesses of psychosomatic nature are caused by mental processes of the sufferer rather than physiological causes. This mind-body dialogue is powerful and is instrumental in both health and diseased states. Perhaps there is a mental aspect to every physical disease, and this possibility has important implications for the way we diagnose, treat and study sickness.

Exploring Consciousness

Submitted by natsu on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 7:21pm

What is consciousness?

This Is Not a Performance: Critique of a ?Genre? (final performance)

Submitted by One Student on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 2:40pm

Stage directions: I drag my chair to the front of the room, out of the horse-shoe of chairs in which the rest of the class is seated. A few minutes are spent in deciding whether to turn the projector off or if I should drag my chair to the side. Shortly, the projector is turned off. I stand on the chair.

Baboon Metaphysics

Submitted by Margaux Kearney on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 8:24pm

Biology 202 Book Commentary

RSD: Unraveling the Puzzle of Pain

Submitted by Margaux Kearney on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 8:02pm

Biology 202 Web Paper 3

The Practice of Blogging: A Personal and Academic Perspective

Submitted by One Student on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 9:38pm

a poetic prelude

Submitted by One Student on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 7:16pm

poetry

Some of my poetry is not intended to have any meaning whatsoever - it's an exercise in breaking down language, because language doesn't say everything I want to say anyway (labyrinthlanguage). It's fun. It keeps my fidgety mind occupied during class, while I listen with half an ear. It's stringing together words that sound ... right. Here are two poems that I thought were meaningless. The first developed meaning as I wrote. The second ... I think it has meaning, though it's damn oblique. But I think it's about continuing, and continuing, and continuing to makea certain kind of effort ...