European Psychiatry
November 1, 2013
L. Sala, D. Rambaud, B. Aubriot
Nous avons mis en place dans notre CMP de secteur adulte, des protocoles de Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) spécifiquement adaptés à des patients souffrant de phobie sociale. L’objectif de cette étude pilote était d’examiner l’efficacité du développement de MBCT à des patients souffrant de phobie sociale. Trente patients ont participé à ce jour à cette étude. Vingt-quatre personnes...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
November 1, 2013
Steve Paulson, Richard J. Davidson, Amishi P. Jha et al.
108 citations
Many of us go through our daily lives on autopilot, not fully aware of our conscious experiences. In a discussion moderated by Steve Paulson, executive producer and host of To the Best of Our Knowledge, neuroscientists Richard Davidson and Amishi Jha and clinical mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn explore the role of consciousness in mental and physical health, how we can train our minds to be...
Contemporary Buddhism
November 1, 2013
Beatrice Alba
19 citations
AbstractSurveys were conducted at two metta meditation retreats in order to examine the psychological effects of metta meditation. Participants were invited to complete the survey at the beginning of the retreat, at the end of the retreat, and two weeks after the end of the retreat. Participants completed the same scales at each time phase, which included measures of happiness, compassionate...
Santé mentale au Québec
October 30, 2013
Lionel Strub, Cyril Tarquinio
L’article fait état de l’application d’un programme-pilote s’inscrivant dans la lignée des interventions de prévention secondaire qui s’emploient à réduire la gravité des symptômes de stress. Développée à partir du protocole MBCT conçu pour prévenir la rechute dépressive, sa spécificité réside dans l’adaptation de son matériel didactique qui repose sur le triptyque méditation de pleine...
The open cardiovascular medicine journal
October 18, 2013
Mahdy Hassanzadeh Delui, Maliheh Yari, Gholamreza Khouyinezhad et al.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of death in developed countries. Most cardiac rehabilitation programs include psychological interventions. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of rehabilitation techniques in cardiac patients including psychological-physical interventions such as Meditation and Relaxation. We enrolled 45 patients with CVD and depression. The...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
October 9, 2013
David W. Orme-Johnson, Vernon A Barnes
151 citations
OBJECTIVE: This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) technique updates previous meta-analyses and assesses the effects of initial anxiety level, age, duration of practice, regularity of practice, research quality, author affiliation, and type of control group on effect sizes. DESIGN: This systematic review of the literature used the...
Teaching and Learning
October 1, 2013
Chunlei Lu
9 citations
Mindfulness is a critical dimension in current school physical activity programs (e.g., physical education, intramural, and interscholastic physical activities). School physical activity programs are a key vehicle used in developing healthy active lifestyles among children and youth; however, the absence of mindfulness in these programs has given rise to numerous problems (such as body-mind...
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine
October 1, 2013
Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, Matthew Hunsinger, Lucas Morgan et al.
How best to support change in health-related behaviors is an important public health challenge. The role of mindfulness training in this process has received limited attention. We sought to explore whether mindfulness training is associated with changes in health-related behaviors. The Health Behaviors Questionnaire was used to obtain self-reported data on dietary behaviors, drinking, smoking,...
October 1, 2013
I. Owen
This paper recaps the position of the Bern school of Husserl interpretation, namely the work of Iso Kern and Eduard Marbach. Kern and Marbach have provided detailed accounts in English as to how to read the key issues in Husserl regarding the philosophical and psychological positions and the methods used to create a theoretical practice that goes before empirical work. When it comes to...
Psychosomatic Medicine
October 1, 2013
Joel W Hughes, David M. Fresco, Rodney Myerscough et al.
Objective: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an increasingly popular practice demonstrated to alleviate stress and treat certain health conditions. MBSR may reduce elevated blood pressure (BP). Treatment guidelines recommend life-style modifications for BP in the prehypertensive range (systolic BP [SBP] 120-139 mm Hg or diastolic BP [DBP] 80-89 mm Hg), followed by antihypertensives...