Items from the list of books recommended by Dr Feldenkrais for SF training, 1975
Robert E. Ornstein (1942-2018)
- On the Experience of Time, Penguin Book, 1970;
- Psychology of Consciousness, San Francisco, W. H. Freeman and C°, cop. 1972; reissued by Penguin
Book, 1996.
An American psychologist, he has worked in neuropsychiatry departments, is a professor at
Stanford University and a contributor to ISHK. On the Experience of Time (1970) is his doctoral
dissertation research, and since the 1970s he has been interested in the role of the nervous
system in recovery. He sought to reconcile the wisdom of Eastern traditions with modern science.
He developed the idea of “biofeedback”, particularly with regard to mood and capacity for
consciousness. He also emphasized the idea of an “inner clock”.
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