The Psychology of Consciousness: Theory and Practice

This book talks about the levels of consciousness and their roles in controlling our life and behaviour. The consciousness has a main role in learning human to behave and to live in all life's situation and ages. This book clarifies these situations in details and the laws that make this system work properly. It provides many solutions and suggestions to control ourselves and our minds and put them in the right way. This book explains many of our behaviours depending on the psychology and the role of the consciousness in the psychiatry, how to treat diseases and mental disorders and how to improve the mental health as well.

This subject is not well discussed and detailed in literature so there is a need to give this topic its role in the psychology and in scientific literature too.

This book is targeting the consciousness' levels and the role of these levels in our life and behaviours, so it divides the roles among them as appropriate and in the right way and then the humans can recognize which part is more important than the other and on what they should focus.

First book that talks about the consciousness in details Composed of eleven chapters, containing concise and up to date information within about 250 pages More than 50 multiple choice questions, distributed along the chapters, covering important aspects

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Dr. Hashim Talib Hashim is a Researcher and certified international trainer. MBChB in the University of Baghdad / College of Medicine. He has more than 55 papers, many of them were published in international journals. He created the idea of "Postconscious" and "Gene's communication theory". He also developed a new treatment technique for infertility with electrical shocks. He has bit portion of his papers in cardiac medicine and surgery. He participated in more than 25 conferences and medical events either nationally and internationally to present his papers and researches. He was awarded many prized for the best paper and best presentation in three competitions. He is also a member of the international global health network that focuses on developing papers in global health related topics. He has his own lab of research in Iraq to work on his ideas and researches.

Dr. Athanasios Alexiou has a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1998, a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics Algorithms and Mathematical Modelling in Biology in 2012, a two-years Postdoc Research Fellowship in Neuroinformatic Applications in 2015 from the Ionian University. Nowadays, he serves as a Faculty Member of the Novel Global Community Education Foundation in Australia. He is also the Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the AFNP Med Company in Austria. His main research field is Biomedical Informatics and Bioethics, specializing in Medical Decision Support Systems, Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Biomarkers Modelling. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Frontiers Journals Genetics, Pharmacology and Sociology in the Section of ELSI (Ethical-Legal-Social Implications) in Science and Genetics, Guest Associate Editor in the Frontiers Neuroscience and Psychology Journal, Section Editor in the Current Alzheimer Research journal and Associate Editorial Board Member in The Open Public Health Journal; he is author/co-author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers in journals/conferences/books/chapters books/workshops; he had participated in several international funded programs; he serves as a Scientific and Program Committee Member in several conferences and as a Reviewer/Member of the Editorial Board of international journals; he supervises diploma theses and internships' programs mainly in Biomedical Informatics and Neurodegeneration Modelling; he has over 20 years of educational experience in teaching Computer Science Lessons and Theory of Algorithms.

Inhalt
Ch. 1: Introduction and History of Consciousness.- Ch. 2: Brain and Mind.- Ch. 3: Levels of Consciousness.- Ch. 4: Sleep and Dreaming.- Ch. 5: Artificial Consciousness.- Ch. 6: Hypnosis and Consciousness.- Ch. 7: Defense Mechanisms.- Ch. 8: Altered States of Consciousness.- Ch. 9: Drugs effects on Consciousness.- Ch. 10: Relativity of the human mind.- Ch. 11: Death and Consciousness.