A person affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD) gradually loses the ability to perform activities of daily living and becomes dependent on caregivers, thereby having a negative impact on the caregivers' quality of life. There is evidence that suggests that interventions aimed at caregivers, such as mindfulness, may be effective at reducing this burden and emotional issues, such as depression and...
Objective: Extensive research suggests that short-term meditation interventions may hold therapeutic promise for a wide range of psychosocial outcomes. In response to calls to subject these interventions to more methodologically rigorous tests, a randomized controlled trial tested the effectiveness of a mindfulness meditation intervention and a compassion meditation intervention against an...
Investigating the contributing factors of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) has always been an important topic in the field of traumatic psychology research. The current study explored the influences of pandemic/epidemic experiences, meditation experiences, and trait mindfulness on PTSS and the mediating role of emotional resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 522 participants...
To address the elevated prevalence of depression, suicide, and suicidal ideation, patients require increased access to effective interventions. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy has a strong evidence base in relapse prophylaxis and can be delivered digitally through Mindful Mood Balance (MMB). This study was a secondary analysis of the impact of MMB paired with usual depression care (UDC)...
Mindfulness training (MT) promotes the development of one's ability to observe and attend to internal and external experiences with objectivity and nonjudgment with evidence to improve psychological well-being. Real-time functional MRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) is a noninvasive method of modulating activity of a brain region or circuit. The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) has been hypothesized...
The COVID-19 syndemic has raised many unanswered questions about the most important values in human life. It has revealed the limits of looking at mere survival and ignoring closeness, spirituality, and "connectedness". Spiritual accompaniment, in contrast, is a valid therapeutic tool for individuals suffering from life-threatening diseases, allowing a real recovery of the transcendent...
Social PsychologyMarch 14, 2022Ariane S. Marion-Jetten, Kaspar Schattke, G. Taylor
Action crises are the intrapsychic conflicts people face when hesitating between continuing and giving up on a goal after the accumulation of setbacks. They are detrimental to goal achievement and psychological health. While many predictors of action crises have been identified, including dispositional mindfulness, almost none have been investigated in terms of their helpfulness during an...
This chapter calls into question a common view about the purpose of Buddhist meditation and offers an alternative interpretation. It is often supposed that a primary purpose of Buddhist meditation is to provide experiential knowledge that there is no self. This is typically taken to mean that some form of insight meditation (vipassanā), such as mindfulness, is a source of knowledge of the...
This chapter takes up two sets of objections, from two leading 20th-century analytic philosophers, Gilbert Ryle and Robert Nozick, against what may be considered foundational assumptions in the emerging discipline that this Handbook is exploring, namely, the “philosophy of meditation”. Against introspection, Ryle argued that the concept is either incoherent, ineffective, or impossible to...
What is the sound of one mind meditating? Is it philosophically valid? The Taoist path is one of harmonizing with the Tao, the Way – to inner peace, practical wisdom, and philosophical enlightenment. Similar views have defined a number of schools of Asian philosophy for millennia. Sages across many Asian traditions have held that philosophical insights alone are insufficient for enlightenment,...