Editing Altered state of consciousness (section)

== History ==
By 1892, the expression was in use in relation to [[hypnosis]],<ref>{{Cite news|title=Aberdeen Evening Express|date=December 14, 1892|work=An Aberdeen Doctor on Hypnotism|others=[Occurrence 3/4 down page, 3rd column, adjacent to article spacing rule in 2nd column.]|quote=The faculties of reason and judgement, the elaborate and regulative faculties, in this altered state of consciousness, are obviously dependent on sense perceptions, and vary accordingly as they do.}}</ref> though there is an ongoing debate as to whether hypnosis is to be identified as an ASC according to its modern definition. The next retrievable instance, by Max Mailhouse from his 1904 presentation to conference,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074683437;view=1up;seq=91|title=The Duties of the State with Reference to Epileptics|last=Mailhouse|first=Max|publisher=Bulletin of State Institutions [under the Board of Control], Volume 7|year=1905|pages=83|quote=Read at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for the Study of Epilepsy and the care and treatment of Epileptics, 22 Nov 1904: 'That is to say the psyche may take on an independent action entirely foreign to the nature and personality of the epileptic when free from an attack, and this altered state of consciousness may lead to acts more or less harmful to patient or bystander'}}</ref> however, is unequivocally identified as such, as it was in relation to [[#Epilepsy|epilepsy]], and is still used today. In academia, the expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig<ref>{{cite journal|title=Altered States of Consciousness (presentation to symposium on Possession States in Primitive People)|journal=[[Archives of General Psychiatry]]| volume =15|issue=3|date=September 1966|doi=10.1001/archpsyc.1966.01730150001001|pmid=5330058|last1=Ludwig|first1=Arnold M.|pages=225–34}}</ref> and brought into common usage from 1969 by [[Charles Tart]].<ref name="isbn0-471-84560-4">{{cite book |last= Tart|first=Charles T. |title=Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings |publisher=Wiley |location=New York |year=1969 |isbn=0-471-84560-4}}</ref><ref name="isbn0-595-15196-5">{{cite book |last= Tart|first=Charles T. |title=States of Consciousness |publisher=Backinprint.com |year=2001 |isbn=0-595-15196-5}}</ref>