Binary Model of the Dynamics of Active versus Passive Mindfulness in Managing Depression

Andrew Hede

doi:10.21926/obm.icm.1804037

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Binary Model of the Dynamics of Active versus Passive Mindfulness in Managing Depression

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Binary Model of the Dynamics of Active versus Passive Mindfulness in Managing Depression

Andrew Hede

OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, Vol.3(4)

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.1804037

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Public Health and Health Services

history of mindfulness meditation

mindfulness training

models of mindfulness

binary model of self

cognitive decentering

existential disidentification

depression management

Background: Meditation has developed over many centuries within a diverse range of religious traditions including Middle-Eastern, Indian, and East-Asian. Of these, mindfulness meditation from the Buddhist (Indian) tradition, has been the most extensively adopted in the Western secular world primarily with applications in health and well-being as pioneered by Jon KabatZinn. Review: While originally developed to treat chronic pain and stress in the U.S., mindfulness training was later coupled with cognitive-behavioral therapy to treat depression in the U.K. and beyond. The present review of the literature confirms the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation in these medical applications. The various models of mindfulness that have been advanced are here reviewed and are shown to be generally based on an underlying unitary model of the human psyche. By contrast, the present model distinguishes between two modes of mindfulness, an active form and a passive form. Theory: The foundations of these two modes of mindfulness are two of three posited types of self comprising the tripartite psyche, namely, the 'intra-self' (underpinning 'active mindfulness') and the 'supra-self' (underpinning 'passive mindfulness'). The binary model of mindfulness advanced here shows how these two types of self can potentially form the basis of an effective two-stage approach to managing depression.

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Title: Binary Model of the Dynamics of Active versus Passive Mindfulness in Managing Depression
Authors: Andrew Hede (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - USC Business School
Publication details: OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, Vol.3(4); 28
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.1804037
ISSN: 2194-6329
Copyright note: Copyright © 2018 by the author. This is an open access article distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is correctly cited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450886402621
Output Type: Journal article

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