Stanley Krippner
Shamans have not been taken seriously by most allopathic physicians, despite the fact that many
shamanic traditions have developed sophisticated models of healing over the centuries.
Summary
Stanley Krippner is an American psychologist and professor of psychology. He has spent the last several decades investigating the field of human consciousness, conducting research in such areas as Dreams, Hypnosis, Shamanism, and Disassociation.
He made essential contributions to the concept of a Biocentric Culture (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).
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See Also
Burrhus Frederic Skinner: American psychologist who invented the Operant Conditioning Chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology - the experimental analysis of behavior.
Carl Gustav Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology, emphasising understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of Dreams, art, Mythology, world religion and philosophy
Charlotte Buhler: German psychologist considered to be one of the founders of Developmental Psychology.
Claudio Naranjo: anthropologist and psychiatrist who is noted for his inter-disciplinary work with mind-altering substances as well as the Enneagram of Personality and Gestalt Psychotherapy.
Erich Fromm: psychoanalyst and social psychologist and also an important representative of 20th century Humanism.
Ernest Hilgard: psychologist famous for his research on Hypnosis, also proposed the theory of Neodissociationism, to re-explain earlier ideas of Disassociation and Automatism
James Hillman: psychologist, considered to be one of the most original of the 20th century, he developed Archetypal Psychology (Polytheistic myth as psychology)
Jean Piaget: philosopher, natural scientist and Development Psychologist, known for his work studying children, his theory of Cognitive Development and for his epistemological view called Genetic Epistemology.
John Bowlby: Development Psychologist in the Psychoanalytic tradition, notable for his pioneering work in Attachment Theory.
John Watson: psychologist who founded a branch of psychology called Behaviourism, after doing research on animal behavior.
Sigmund Freud: neurologist and the founder of the Psychoanalytic school of psychology, best known for his theories of the Unconscious Mind and the defense mechanism of Sexual Repression.
Terence McKenna: writer, philosopher, and Ethnobotanist, noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from Hypnosis, Shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and novelty theory.
Wilhelm Reich: Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for his studies on the link between Human Sexuality and Neuroses
William McDougall: psychologist who particularly important in the development of the Theory of Instinct and of Social Psychology.
Links
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Krippner
Home Page: http://stanleykrippner.weebly.com/
Biography: http://www.parapsych.org/members/s_krippner.html
Online Texts: http://stanleykrippner.weebly.com/--articles.html
Stanley Krippner, Chaos Theory and Humanistic Psychology - The Third Revolution and The Third
Force
: http://www.asklepia.org/krippner/ChaosTheory.html
Stanley Krippner, Dreams as a Mirror of Change in Personal Mythology
:
http://www.asklepia.org/krippner/dreamspermythol.html
Stanley Krippner, A Combs, Self-organization in the dreaming brain
, Journal of Mind and
Behavior, 21, pp 399-412, 2000: http://stanleykrippner.com/papers/self-organization_dreamingbrain.htm
Stanley Krippner, "The Epistemology and Technologies of Shamanic States of Consciousness", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 7, No 11/12, pp 94-118, 2000: http://www.uboeschenstein.ch/sal/awtexte/krippner.html