Autism in AdulthoodNovember 26, 2025T. Hirvikoski, Hanna Agius, Gustaf Wettermark et al.
Autistic adults often experience high levels of stress and difficulties in coping with stressors in everyday life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) groups, adjusted for autistic adults in an outpatient context. We conducted a two-arm, parallel-group, randomized controlled effectiveness trial during the years 2018–2020. Autistic...
This research proposes to evaluate Transcendental Meditation (TM) as a complementary integrative practice in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders. Based on WHO data and the Brazilian context, the study highlights the high prevalence of anxiety and the need for therapeutic alternatives beyond the biomedical model. The research, conducted with adults diagnosed in the state of São Paulo, used online...
Abstract: Background: The Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI) in its short form is one of the most frequently used instruments in research to measure self-attributed mindfulness levels. Despite the widespread use, there is no calibration sample available until now. Thus, we decided to calibrate it in a representative German sample as norm values are of relevance for clinicians and researchers...
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness with a significant disease, economic and social burden. Persecutory delusions (beliefs that one will be harmed or mistreated) are a common symptom of schizophrenia with associated high levels of depression. International clinical guidelines recommend individual cognitive behaviour therapy for schizophrenia, but there are currently no group psychological...
Educating graduate students about praxis represents a challenge and an opportunity. This essay explores an experience of learning praxis along with Transformative Phenomenology, the combination of which indicates a promising means for scaffolding graduate students to deeper self-reflection and changed thinking. The emergence of changed thinking is reasoned as a shift from subconscious thought...
A B S T R A K Penelitian ini menguji efektivitas Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) dalam menurunkan kecemasan pada wanita dengan infertilitas primer di Bandung. Infertilitas sering memicu kecemasan akibat stigma sosial, ekspektasi budaya, serta perasaan bersalah dan kehilangan kontrol diri. MBCT dipilih karena memadukan pendekatan kognitif-perilaku dengan mindfulness untuk mengelola...
Black women in the U.S. disproportionately suffer from insomnia and related cardiometabolic health burdens. However, there is a lack of sleep intervention and implementation research specifically targeting Black women. The aim of this study is to co-design and evaluate equity-focused, community-engaged implementation strategies for an online, group-based mindfulness-based therapy for insomnia...
SexesNovember 25, 2025Emanuela Falzia, Vincenzo Maria Romeo
This perspective advances a psychoanalytic—embodiment account of the “libido of generativity” (LoG)—future-oriented reorganization of erotic desire that links embodied arousal with caregiving, legacy, and shared projects. We define LoG along four axes (direction of investment: dyad↔triad; temporal horizon: immediacy↔future; outcome modalities: procreative, creative–sublimative,...
Objective: To explore the effects of mindfulness meditation on core attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, family functioning and social functioning in young children. Methods: A convenience sample of 43 children aged 6-9 years who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria was recruited at our hospital between 3 June and 3 July 2024. Participants were randomly assigned to an...
Objectives: The majority of mindfulness research has focused on group-level effects, with limited attention to how engagement with specific meditation practices interacts with individual differences such as personality. This study examined whether Big Five traits moderated the effects of two mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on well-being and prosocial outcomes: one incorporating...