神秘体验：一种精神病学的思考。

The mystic experience: a psychiatric reflection.

作者信息

Runions J E

出版信息

Can J Psychiatry. 1979 Mar;24(2):147-51. doi: 10.1177/070674377902400206.

Abstract

This paper reviews the phenomenology of the mystical experience and its varied contexts epilepsy, toxicity, organic brain syndromes, the major psychoses and hysterical dissociative states as well as in apparently normal persons. The impact of the experience on the personality is noted and its significance briefly reviewed. The author notes that two fallacies await the unwary psychiatrist: the fallacy of reductionism which defines the mystical experience in pathological terms only; and the fallacy of speculation without adequate philosophical or theological tools.

摘要

本文回顾了神秘体验的现象学及其在癫痫、中毒、器质性脑综合征、主要精神病和癔症性解离状态以及明显正常的人中的不同背景。文中提到了这种体验对人格的影响，并简要回顾了其意义。作者指出，有两个谬误等待着粗心的精神科医生：还原论的谬误，即仅从病理学角度定义神秘体验；以及没有足够的哲学或神学工具就进行推测的谬误。