Overview: clinical and physiological comparison of meditation with other self-control strategies.
The American journal of psychiatry March 1982 D H Shapiro
In 1977 the American Psychiatric Association called for a critical examination of the clinical effectiveness of meditation. The author provides a review of the literature bearing on clinical and physiological comparisons of meditation with other self-control strategies. He begins by providing a definition of mediation and then cites the literature comparing mediation with such self-regulation...