Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Louise Fransgaard
2 citations
Artiklen præsenterer indledningsvis det buddhistiske fundament bag de senere års terapeutiske anvendelse af mindfulnessmeditation og -filosofi i vesten. Med to forskellige mindfulnessbaserede terapitilgange som eksempel på den såkaldte tredje bølge inden for adfærdsterapitraditionen diskuteres efterfølgende fordele, ulemper og mulige problemstillinger ved integrationen af østlig filosofi i...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Anders Thingmand
I artiklen foretages en kritisk analyse af måden, hvorpå mindfulness-meditation forsøges integreret i medicin og psykologi i Mindfulness Baseret Stress Reduktion og Mindfulness Baseret Kognitiv Terapi. Særligt problematiseres påstanden om, at Mindfulness Baseret Kognitiv Terapi skulle udgøre en ”syntese” af forståelsen af kroppen og sindet i kognitiv terapi og buddhistisk mindfulness, da en...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Klaus B. Bærentsen
1 citation
Meditation er en klassisk spirituel praksis, rettet mod at bringe sindet i ro. I artiklen rapporteres en undersøgelse af hjerneprocesser under meditation med anvendelse af fMRI. Formålet er at identificere og karakterisere hjerneprocessernes forløb under skiftet fra normal hvile til meditation og under kontinuert vedvarende meditation. Under skiftet til meditation blev der fundet øget...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
R. Singla
“The East and the West must unite to provide one another with what is lacking” Abdu'l Baha in Sinha & Sinha, 1997 Mindfulness & meditation are gaining popularity in the Western psychological practice in the past 4-5 decades, especially within psychotherapeutic approaches, health promotion, and stress reduction. The origins and the broader context, however, seem to be overlooked in some of...
Oxford University Press eBooks
July 28, 2011
Ansuman Biswas
6 citations
A significant lacuna in academic and scientific studies of consciousness is a description of how it actually feels to be here. The study of consciousness has proved to be extremely elusive when using the traditional third-person methodology of science. Any description of qualia — by definition lived, subjective experience — seems to necessitate the admission of first-person data, which has...
Journal of Pain Research
July 26, 2011
An eight-week yoga intervention is associated with improvements in pain, psychological functioning and mindfulness, and changes in cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia.
Clinical Psychology Review
July 26, 2011
Stefan G Hofmann, Paul Grossman, Devon E Hinton
945 citations
Mindfulness-based meditation interventions have become increasingly popular in contemporary psychology. Other closely related meditation practices include loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM), exercises oriented toward enhancing unconditional, positive emotional states of kindness and compassion. This article provides a review of the background, the techniques, and...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
July 20, 2011
Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire--reliability and factor structure: a Swedish version.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
July 18, 2011
Nicole Geschwind, Frenk Peeters, Marjan Drukker et al.
440 citations
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) increases momentary positive emotions and the ability to make use of natural rewards in daily life. METHOD: Adults with a life-time history of depression and current residual depressive symptoms (mean age = 43.9 years, SD = 9.6; 75% female; all Caucasian) were randomized to MBCT (n = 64) or waitlist control (CONTROL; n =...
Cognitive Therapy and Research
July 13, 2011
Mindfulness is Inversely Associated with Alcohol Attentional Bias Among Recovering Alcohol-Dependent Adults.