What Mindfulness can learn about Dissociation and what Dissociation can learn from Mindfulness
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Mindfulness based psychotherapeutic interventions have shown to be an effective intervention for quite some time now. These intervention, however, have not been that successful with individuals who experience dissociative disorders. There is a very clear disconnect between these two fields. In an attempt to close the gap, reviewing what mindfulness might be from an attachment and human developed lens, one can learn that there is a lot more occurring in a mindful state other than relaxation. There is a level of human development achievement that comes from a regular mindfulness practice that seems to play a role in raising our young and being part of a complex social group. Evidence suggests that the end product of mindfulness is likely deeply connected human relationships and balanced care-giving abilities. In knowing the benefits from a relational perspective of mindfulness those in the dissociative world can utilize adaptations of mindfulness so that their clients can eventually learn to developed mindfulness and, in turn, have the same deeply connected relationship that they often missed. Conversely those in the mindfulness based therapeutic world can learn a lot about dissociation and harmed people by understanding the real difficulties that individuals with dissociative disorders have in experiencing a mindful state. They can learn to understand the need to adapt mindfulness based practices to accommodate individuals who have a system that is phobic of awareness, terrified of being calm and who have no concept of what non-judgement means. Both fields would benefit greatly by knowing more about the other.
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Introspection during meditation may increase the salience of grief processes active after traumatic injury or chronic illness diagnosis.
“This may be as a result of introspection during meditation: renewing a focus on thoughts and emotions may increase the salience of the grief processes (such as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) which are active after traumatic injury or chronic illness diagnosis [19–22].”
From Grieving a disrupted biography: an interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring barriers to the use of mindfulness after neurological injury or impairment (2021) · cites this paper as [19]
The paper’s Emotional Balance discussion (indexed as Abstract; page unavailable) says mindfulness helps people become aware of and feel emotions, including grief. Its discussion of highly traumatized people also cautions that going inward can bring up painful material. It does not connect meditation to heightened grief after traumatic injury or a chronic illness diagnosis, or describe the listed stages of grief. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Forner, C.
- Corresponding author
- Forner, Chrisine
- Venue
- Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-08-10
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-15
- ISSN
- 1529-9732 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-9740
- OpenAlex
- W2896469435
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- mindfulness, dissociation, dissociative disorders, attachment theory, human development, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, treatment adaptation, caregiving, non-judgment
- MeSH terms
- Dissociative Disorders, Humans, Mindfulness
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