University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Towards a Science of Mind: Schizophrenia, Mysticism, Artistic Creativity, Scientific Discovery, Psychedelic Experience and Extrasensory Perception as Functions of a Symbo-Organismic Scheme of Human Mental Functioning

Ellingham, Ivan Halford

This item is only available for download by members of the University of Illinois community. Students, faculty, and staff at the U of I may log in with your NetID and password to view the item. If you are trying to access an Illinois-restricted dissertation or thesis, you can request a copy through your library's Inter-Library Loan office or purchase a copy directly from ProQuest.

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/77430

Description

Title
Towards a Science of Mind: Schizophrenia, Mysticism, Artistic Creativity, Scientific Discovery, Psychedelic Experience and Extrasensory Perception as Functions of a Symbo-Organismic Scheme of Human Mental Functioning
Author(s)
Ellingham, Ivan Halford
Issue Date
1984
Department of Study
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Psychology, General
Language
eng
Abstract
  • This work addresses the issue of modern psychology's lack of a unitary conceptual frame by which to interpret its subject matter scientifically.
  • Presented is a hierarchical "symbo-organismic" scheme of human mental functioning based in the main on the views of Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Michael Polanyi, and Alfred North Whitehead. The claim is made that this scheme has wide reference and that it symbolizes the common "logical form" intrinsic to the evolutionary development of human mentality, to its ontogenetic development and to its microgenetic manifestations.
  • As an earnest of the pervasive pertinence of the aforesaid scheme in terms of its structure six different modes of human mental functioning--schizophrenia, mysticism, artistic creativity, scientific discovery, psychedelic experience, and extrasensory perception--are individually gauged and determined to be significantly interrelated.
  • Corroborating evidence for the validity of such a schematic interpretation is provided through the auspices of an appended case study, a work which recounts a personally experienced "augmented" condition of consciousness.
Graduation Semester
1984
Type of Resource
text
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/77430

Owning Collections

Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois PRIMARY
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois
Dissertations and Theses - Psychology
Dissertations and Theses from the Dept. of Psychology