Course instructor

Elizaveta Solomonova, PhD

Elizaveta Solomonova, PhD, is a researcher and educator working at the intersection of consciousness science, psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy of mind. Based at McGill and Concordia Universities in Montreal, her work explores the edges of human experience, including sleep and dreaming, psychosis, felt presence, and the psychological effects of contemplative practices. She works across disciplines and uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate how the mind engages in meaning-making in different psychological states and existential contexts. Elizaveta is interested in scientific and philosophical study of how the mind constructs and sometimes alters its sense of reality, making her research relevant for clinicians, meditators, and anyone curious about the mind at its limits and in its richness.

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will be able to identify and types of delusion-like ideation (DLI) that can arise in the context of Buddhist meditation practice, contextualising them within normative and special meditation experiences.

  • Participants will be able to apply a person-centered, multi-criteria framework for assessing whether a meditation-related psychological challenge warrants clinical intervention, taking into account cultural context, distress, functional impairment, and appraisal.

  • Participants will be able to discuss how social, cultural, and environmental factors, including retreat conditions, sensory attenuation, and Buddhist worldviews, shape the onset, content, and interpretation of meditation-related DLI.

Continuing Education Credit

This course is approved for 1 CE credit ✅

Cheetah House is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Cheetah House maintains responsibility for this program and its content

Course curriculum

    1. Delusion-like Ideation video

    1. DLI Quiz

    2. Verification

    1. Instruction

    2. The instructor(s)

    3. Professional & Ethical Issues

    4. Remote Environment

    5. Learning

    6. Participant Information

    7. Narrative

About this course

  • $40.00
  • 1 hour of video content

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