A Map of Mental States

A Map of Mental States explains Dr John H. Clark's completely new approach to the study of the human mind. He has devised a map upon which the various journeys taken by a person inside his own mind, through his own 'inner space', can be plotted and analysed. The map can then be used by the person to gain more insight into these journeys.

All the journeys of mental life can be plotted on the map - the ordinary journeys of waking and sleeping; the unusual journeys of mysticism; the abnormal journeys of mental illness and the 'artificial' journeys of the hallucinogenic and other drugs. The book also contains chapters in which mythology and the practice of the arts are related to the map. Dr Clark discusses other psychological maps, and traces the evolution of his own map.

The map enables the states of mind encountered on different mental journeys to be explained and compared. It will prove a useful tool for all those interested in studying the mind, from psychologists and physicians to mystics and meditators.

The Author

John H. Clark studied medicine at Cambridge and at the Westminster Hospital before working at the Westminster Hospital, Guy's Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton. After obtaining his Diploma in Psychological Medicine he became an MRC Clinical Research Fellow. He later worked at the MRC Psycholinguistics Research Unit before joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester as a Senior Lecturer.