Bell C C
J Natl Med Assoc. 1982 Oct;74(10):1017-20.
Psychiatry tends to be interested only in states of consciousness as they relate to psychopathology. In this paper the author presents the thesis that the ability to alter one's state of consciousness is in fact a survival skill useful in coping with the physiologic and psychologic effects of stress. Furthermore, he discusses techniques indigenous to black culture for altering states of consciousness and gives phenomenologic black transcultural evidence that black culture is quite sophisticated in the area of intrapsychic survival skills.
精神病学往往只关注与精神病理学相关的意识状态。在本文中,作者提出了这样一个论点:改变自身意识状态的能力实际上是一种有助于应对压力的生理和心理影响的生存技能。此外,他讨论了黑人文化中用于改变意识状态的本土技巧,并给出了现象学上的黑人跨文化证据,表明黑人文化在心理内部生存技能领域相当成熟。