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Mindfulness Mentalizing Humanism: A Transtheoretical Convergence 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Masterpasqua, Frank
  • 학회/출판사/기관명EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION
  • 출판년도2016
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION
  • 발행사항Vol.26No.1[2016]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1053-0479
  • 소개/요약Humanistic psychology began in the mid-twentieth century in response to the perceived materialism and reductionism of psychoanalysis and behaviorism. Since then, there has been little consensus among the major theoretical approaches about the mechanisms that lead to positive change. This article describes how the three major forces of psychology are converging on acknowledgement of the importance of mental processes that engage and subsume unwanted private experiences. Third generation cognitive-behavioral therapists promote mental activities that lead to defusion from unwanted internal experiences. Similarly, in the traditions of relational psychoanalysis and attachment theory, mentalization-based therapists foster a “mentalizing stance” comparable to defusion. Given the longstanding premise among humanistic psychologists that persons are more than their psychological content, these recent developments augur an important transtheoretical discourse about a transcendent sense of self. Some of the elements of the discourse are described, as well as how this shared perspective bridges neuroscience, and spiritual traditions. Keywords: mindfulness, mentalizing, humanistic, transtheoretical