About Some Unusual Mental States

Abstract

Introduced by John H. Clark, the Map of Mental States is a geometrical model of a human mental life. In spite of its simplicity, it takes into account the most essential variables characterizing the mind. Deals with three important types of mental life which can be represented on the Map: mystical states, mental illnesses and drug states. The exact numerical positions of the states have been established on the Map, for the most known mystical path, for some mental illnesses and for two typical drugs. Rectilinear and curvilinear distances between corresponding states have been calculated and perspectives of such a study have been shown.

Citation

Betta, J. (1993), "About Some Unusual Mental States", Kybernetes, Vol. 22 No. 7, pp. 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005999