Textual Practice
February 1, 2022
Laura Colombino
6 citations
The article sketches the philosophical theories of consciousness of the 2010s inspired by neuroscience and computer science, in order to relate them to Ian McEwan’s investigation of a protohuman and a posthuman mind, those of a foetus and a robot, in Nutshell and Machines Like Me respectively. McEwan engages inventively with the contemporary imaginary of the new brain sciences and tries to make...
Axiomathes
February 1, 2022
T. S. Lowther
Abstract: Functionalism has become one of the predominant theories in the philosophy of mind, with its many merits supposedly including its capacity for precise formulation. The most common method to express this precise formulation is by means of the modified Ramsey sentence. In this article, I will apply work from the field of the philosophy of science to functionalism for the first time,...
Psychological Assessment
February 1, 2022
César González-blanch, Leonardo A Medrano, Shaunagh O'Sullivan et al.
20 citations
Despite the considerable growth in mindfulness-based research in the field of psychosis, few attempts have been made to validate mindfulness instruments in this population. This study aimed to evaluate the factorial structure, internal consistency, construct validity, and longitudinal measurement invariance of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) in a sample of individuals with...
PsyArXiv
January 31, 2022
Daniel R. Berry, Katie Rodriguez, Virginia Tasulis et al.
preprint
Objectives: Mindful attention deployment has been found to have practical benefits for a range of interpersonal outcomes including prosocial action and emotion. Recently, theory has posited that contemplative training that incorporates mindful attention may enhance intergroup compassion. Method: Here, we conduct a selective narrative review, drawing on the Buddhist concept skillful means to ask...
Sacrilegens
January 30, 2022
Otávio Augusto Diniz Vieira
O Método Mahāsī, do mestre Mahāsī Sāyadaw (1904-1982), é um dos mais conhecidos métodos de meditação vipassanā do moderno Movimento Vipassana do Budismo Theravāda. Este artigo tem como objetivo investigar a relação entre ensinamentos (pariyatti) e prática (patipatti) deste método. Para tal, apresentaremos os princípios basilares do método, as técnicas de meditação e, por fim, os 16 estágios das...
Mindfulness
January 28, 2022
L. Loy, Alicia Clemens, Gerhard Reese
A recent publication stated that mind–body practices (MBPs) of meditation and yoga boost self-enhancement instead of quieting the ego, contrary to these practices’ traditional goals. Surveying practitioners directly after MBP classes or at other time points, the researchers found higher levels of self-esteem and communal narcissism after MBP and interpreted these as indicators of a boosted ego....
January 28, 2022
Lisetta Lovett, Alannah Tomkins
The newspapers were full of details about her untimely death. A court case heard that she had died of an overdose of cocaine that had been supplied by her dress designer and partner Reggie de Veulle and that she had been using cocaine and opium heavily for some time. In the first decades of the twentieth century, cocaine sniffing and opium parties were fashionable in literary and theatrical...
Psychiatric News
January 28, 2022
Claire Zilber
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Ethics CornerFull AccessEthics Committees ReimaginedClaire Zilber, M.D.Claire Zilber, M.D.Published Online:28 Jan 2022https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2022.2.25The APA and district branch (DB) ethics committees used to stay busy processing complaints from patients, their family members, and colleagues about members who allegedly engaged in...
Routledge eBooks
January 25, 2022
Christie Nelson
1 citation
Helping professionals who treat addiction will encounter clients from myriad religious and spiritual backgrounds. This chapter addresses the grief and related shame and guilt associated with loss due to addiction from a Buddhist perspective. Buddhist principles such as mindfulness have been integrated into many Western psychotherapeutic programs focused on the treatment of substance use...
Snapshots from Home
January 25, 2022
K.M. Fierke
This chapter moves to an exploration of the relationship between emptiness and ‘no mind’. Mindfulness is usually associated with some form of meditation. The latter is also central to Eastern traditions of fighting. The chapter connects self to mind and action while also revealing how something formless, that is, no-mind, can express intention and action, and how this action, embedded in a...