Robert E. Ornstein
Dr. Robert Evan Ornstein is a psychologist, writer, professor at Stanford University, and chairman of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK).
Life
Ornstein has been involved in econciling the scientific understanding of mind and consciousness with other cultural traditions. He has written on the brain's role in health in THE HEALING BRAIN with David Sobel of Kaiser Permanente, the way in which human consciouness is unable to understand the fast paced modern world in NEW WORLD NEW MIND with Paul Ehrlich and the way our current consciousness has developed in THE AXEMAKER'S GIFT with James Burke, he worked to reconcile the wisdom traditions fo the east and science in THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS and is interested in promoting the modern Sufism of Idries Shah.[1] Shah and Ornstein met in the 1960s.[1] Realizing that Ornstein could be an ideal partner in propagating his teachings, translating them into the idiom of psychotherapy, Shah made him his deputy in the United States.[1] Ornstein's The Psychology of Consciousness (1972) was enthusiastically received by the academic psychology community, as it coincided with new interests in the field, such as the study of biofeedback and other techniques designed to achieve shifts in mood and awareness.[1] Ornstein's book The Right Mind deals with split-brain studies and other experiments or clinical evidence revealing the abilities of the right cerebral hemisphere.
Education
- City University of New York's Queen's College, United States, 1964, bachelor's degree in psychology
- Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, 1968, PhD (thesis: On the Experience of Time)
Partial bibliography
- On the Experience of Time (Penguin Books, 1969)
- The Psychology of Consciousness (Harcourt Brace, 1972)
- 4th rev. ed. (Penguin Books, 1986)
- Physiological Studies of Consciousness with Robert Evan (Institute for Cultural Research, 1973[2])
- The Mind Field (Viking Press, 1976)
- paperback (Malor Books, 1996)
- The Amazing Brain with Richard F. Thompson (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984)
- Multimind (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986)
- New World, New Mind: Moving Towards Conscious Evolution (co-authored with Paul R. Ehrlich) (Methuen, 1989)
- The Evolution of Consciousness, illustrated by Ted Dewan (Prentice-Hall US, 1991)
- The Roots of the Self, illustrated by Ted Dewan (HarperCollins US, 1993)
- The Axemaker’s Gift, with James Burke, illustrated by Ted Dewan (G. P. Putnam's Sons US, 1995)
- The Right Mind (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997)
References
- ^ a b c d Westerlund, David (ed.) (2004). Sufism in Europe and North America. New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon. p. 53. ISBN 0415325919.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Robert E. Ornstein and Robert Evan, Physiological studies of consciousness, ICR Monograph Series No. 11, Institute for Cultural Research, 1973, ISBN 0904674002.