The Ecstatic Imagination Psychedelic Experiences and the Psychoanalysis of Self-Actualization

Presents the first comprehensive survey of the varieties of psychedelic experience since 1975.

About the author

Dan Merkur is Research Reader in the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions, also published by SUNY Press; Becoming Half Hidden: Shamanism and Initiation Among the Inuit; and Powers Which We Do Not Know: The Gods and Spirits of the Inuit.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Merkur, Merkur Dan
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.01.1998
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780791436066
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3606-6
• Pages: 226
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 318 g
• Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, States Of Consciousness, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis