Teaching transcendental meditation in a psychiatric setting.
T Candelent, G Candelent
Hospital & community psychiatry March 1975 DOI: 10.1176/ps.26.3.156 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Program description Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Psychiatric patients at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut |
| Intervention | Transcendental Meditation (TM) |
| Duration | Two and a half years |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | The authors report that over two and a half years they taught Transcendental Meditation to psychiatric patients and offered staff programs, and they describe the patient instruction program and the benefits they attribute to regular TM practice for psychiatric patients. |
Abstract
For two and a half years the authors have taught Transcendental Meditation (TM) to psychiatric patients at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. They have also presented programs to hospital staff to acquaint them with the technique and practice of TM. In this paper they describe briefly the instruction program given to patients at the institute and point out some of the benefits of regular practice of TM for psychiatric patients.
Citations in the library
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- A Brief Report: A Facet-Level Analysis on Relationships Between Mindfulness and Attachment Styles Graduate Student Journal of Psychology 2010
- Electrocortical activity and related phenomena associated with meditation practice: a literature review. International Journal of Neuroscience November 1984