A neurobehavioral account for decentering as the salve for the distressed mind
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Abstract
Distress is commonly characterized by prolonged internal suffering that can range from self-focused processing of negative emotions and stressors, to highly intensely aversive and prolonged emotional states thereby worsening or complicating emotional and physical conditions. Decentering represents a metacognitive capacity thought to reflect three interrelated processes: meta-awareness, disidentification from internal experience, and reduced reactivity to thought content—which is reliably increased with mindfulness-based interventions. In this essay, we seek to link the clinical presentation of distress disorders to known or hypothesized disruptions in neural networks that underlie emotion, cognition, and goal directed behavior, and offer a neurobehavioral account for how and why treatments imbued with mindfulness meditation might ameliorate these conditions, in part through increases in decentering.
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- Authors
- King, A. P., & Fresco, D. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Kent State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- King, Anthony P.
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Center for Open Science
- Published
- 2018-12-09
- Volume
- 28
- Pages
- 285-293
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6706318
- OpenAlex
- W2916914943
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 0.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- MindRxiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- MindRxiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL119977)
- National Institute of Mental Health (K23MH112852)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (P30NR015326)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R61AT009867)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Keywords
- decentering, distress, mindfulness meditation, metacognition, meta-awareness, disidentification, artificial neural networks, emotion regulation, stress, goal-directed behavior
- MeSH terms
- Metacognition, Psychological Distress, Behavioral Symptoms, Humans, Nerve Net, Mindfulness
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