Dr. Orli Dahan

*Consciousness
*Childbirth
*Sexuality
*Evolutionary Psychology
*Philosophy of Science

• The Science of Consciousness 
• Philosophy & Psychology of Birth 
• Evolutionary Psychology

Selected Courses:

1. The birthing brain: Sexuality, Consciousness, and Evolution (Multidisciplinary, B.A.)
2. Set & Setting in Education: Consciousness Studies for Educators (Seminar, Education, B.A.)
3. Masochism (Multidisciplinary, Education, B.A.)
4. Evolutionary Psychology (Multidisciplinary, B.A.)
5. 20th Century Culture: Mass Communication and Dystopian Visions (Multidisciplinary, B.A.)
6. Techno-pedagogy: Technology Integration in Teaching and Learning (Education, B.A., M.A.)

1. Dahan, O. (2017). The problem of other (group) minds (response to Schwitzgebel). Philosophia, 45(3), 1099-1112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9876-2 [IF: 0.28; 75/568 – philosophy; Q1; Citations: 2]
2. Dahan, O. (2019). Submission, pain and pleasure – considering an evolutionary hypothesis concerning sexual masochism. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6(4), 386-403. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000202 [IF: 1.49; 32/67 – Neuropsychology and physiological psychology; Q2; Citations: 6]
3. Dahan, O. (2019). There IS a question of physicalism. Organon F, 26(4), 542-571. [IF: 0.14; 301/568 – philosophy; Q3; Citations: 3]
4. Dahan, O. (2020). Birthing consciousness as a case of adaptive altered state of consciousness associated with transient hypofrontality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(3), 794-808. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620901546 [IF: 9.305; 6/245 – psychology (miscellaneous); Q1; Citations: 12]
5. Dahan, O. (2020). Physical constants as identifiers of modern universal laws of nature. Organon F, 27(3), 325-345. [IF: 0.14; 301/568 – philosophy; Q3; Citations: 1]
6. Dahan, O. (2021). Birthing consciousness: a lacuna in evolutionary psychology. New ideas in psychology, 60, 100822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2020.100822 [IF: 2.62; 32/169 – History and philosophy of science; 114/163 – Psychology (miscellaneous); Q1; Citations: 7]
7. Dahan, O. (2021). The riddle of the extreme ends of the birth experience: Birthing consciousness and its fragility. Current psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01439-7 [IF: 2.05; 112/263 - Psychology (miscellaneous); Q2; Citations: 5]
8. Dahan, O. (2021). The birthing brain: a lacuna in neuroscience. Brain and Cognition, 150, 105722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105722 [IF: 2.5; 36/468 – Arts and Humanities; Q1; 34/110 – Cognitive Neuroscience; Citations: 8]
9. Dahan, O. (2021). Obstetrics at odds with evolution: The consequences of interrupting adaptive birthing consciousness. New ideas in psychology, 63, 100903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100903 [IF: 2.62; 32/169 – History and philosophy of science; 114/163 – Psychology (miscelaneous); Q1; Citations: 2]
10. Dahan, O. (2022). Birthing as an experience of awe: Birthing consciousness and its long-term positive effects. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000214 [IF: 0.76; 211/700 – Philosophy; Q2]
11. Dahan, O. & Cohen-shabot, S. (2022). Not just mechanical birthing bodies: Articulating the impact of imbalanced power relationships in the birth arena on women’s subjectivity, agency, and consciousness. Mind, Culture, and Activity. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2022.2110262  [IF: 1.37; 46/447 – Anthropology; 337/1381 – Education; Q1]
12. *Dahan, O. & Odent, M. (2023). Not just mechanical birthing bodies: Birthing consciousness and birth reflexes. Journal of Perinatal Education, 32(3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1891/JPE-2022-0007 [Obstetrics and Gynecology; Q4]
13. *Dahan, O. (2023). Navigating Intensive Altered States of Consciousness: How Can the Set and Setting Key Parameters Promote the Science of Human Birth?. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1072047 [IF: 5.435; 90/556 – Psychiatry and Mental Health; 899/7118 – Medicine; Q1]
14. *Dahan, O. (2023). The case of poor postpartum mental health: A consequence of an evolutionary mismatch - not of an evolutionary trade-off. Biology & Philosophy, 38(3), 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-023-09910-4  [IF: 1.795; 25/187 – History and philosophy of science; 54/732 – Philosophy; Q1]  

פרסומים בעברית:

15. דהאן, א. (2022). יולדת. מפתח – כתב עת לקסיקאלי למחשבה פוליטית, 17.
16. דהאן, א. (2024). תודעת לידה כגשר על פני מים סוערים. בתוך: רפואה, מין ומגדר – המקראה. יעל השילוני דולב ושרון אורשלימי (עורכות). האוניברסיטה הפתוחה. 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Orli_Dahan

https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?hl=iw&user=JRdQJHMAAAAJ