Psychological Reports
June 1, 2020
Carole L Bandy, Michael C. Dillbeck, Vincent Sezibera et al.
A study was conducted on South African college students using the Transcendental Meditation technique to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder. Students meeting the criteria for possible posttraumatic stress disorder were included. Thirty-four students at the experimental university in South Africa clinically diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder were instructed in and practiced the...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
February 1, 2014
Brian Rees, Fred Travis, David Shapiro et al.
This follow-up pilot study tested whether Transcendental Meditation® (TM) practice would significantly reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress in Congolese refugees within 10 days after instruction. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian (PCL-C) was administered to nonmatched waitlist controls from a previous study 3 times over a 90-day period. Within 8 days of the third baseline...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
April 1, 2013
Brian Rees, Fred Travis, David Shapiro et al.
This matched single-blind pilot study tested the effect of Transcendental Meditation® (TM) practice on symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) in Congolese refugees. Urban refugees (N = 102) staying around Kampala, Uganda attended introductory meetings. After initial random assignment to the TM group, 30 refugees who revealed that they were unable to attend all meetings and were eliminated from...
Oxford University Press eBooks
August 9, 1990
David A. Shapiro
4 citations
This chapter argues that efforts to ascertain the effects of meditation on well-being and health are usefully viewed as falling within the larger domain of psychotherapy research. This perspective on meditation studies offers two main advantages. Firstly, methodological advances in psychotherapy research carry enormous potential for the improvement of meditation research. Secondly, it opens up...
Psychophysiology
November 1, 1981
David E. Becker, David Shapiro
55 citations
ABSTRACT Two studies have been widely quoted as indicating the differing states of consciousness in Zen vs Yoga meditation. A replication and extension were attempted. Very experienced Zen, Yoga, and TM meditators with average lengths of experience of 7.5 yrs, 5 yrs, and 7 yrs, respectively, and two groups of controls were presented with auditory clicks during meditation. EEG alpha suppression...