Robert E. Ornstein

Dr. Robert Evans Ornstein is a psychologist, writer, professor at Stanford University, and chairman of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK).

Ornstein has been involved in promoting the modern Sufism of Idries Shah.cite book
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title = Sufism in Europe and North America
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isbn = 0415325919] Shah and Ornstein met in the 1960s. 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. 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. 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.

Partial bibliography

* "The Psychology of Consciousness" (Harcourt Brace 1972)
** "4th rev. ed." (Penguin Books, 1986)
* "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)
* " [http://www.ishkbooks.com/NWNM/TOC.html 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

External links

* http://www.robertornstein.com/
* [http://www.ishkbooks.com Website for ISHK]