Background Anxiety is one of the most prevalent global mental health disorders, with its incidence having risen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and remaining elevated in the post-pandemic era. According to the process model of emotion regulation, mindfulness may serve as an early-stage cognitive change strategy that enhances emotional stability and ultimately reduces anxiety. While...
Current paradigms for understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)-including psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and neuroscientific approaches-offer valuable insights but remain fragmented. They largely fail to explain the deep motivational structure of narcissism, particularly the co-existence of grandiose and vulnerable subtypes and the disorder's profound resistance to treatment....
Depression is a highly prevalent mental disorder worldwide, and its cognitive rigidity-characterized by persistent negative beliefs resistant to countervailing evidence-remains a critical puzzle in philosophical psychiatry and clinical psychology. Existing theories of abductive reasoning have struggled to explain why similar adversities lead to rigid negative cognition in some individuals but...
A central tension exists within Charles S. Peirce's philosophy of mind: while he characterizes perception as an "extreme case of abduction," its involuntary nature seems to exclude it from the realm of reasoning. This paper aims to resolve this tension and develop a unified framework for understanding perception and emotion. We propose a two-tier model of abduction, distinguishing between...