Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Our prospective randomized clinical trial found that MBSR was noninferior to escitalopram for the treatment of anxiety disorders. In addition, MBSR was safe and well tolerated, with fewer adverse events associated with treatment compared with escitalopram
Richard Sears • Mindfulness as Effective as Antidepressant for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain... See more
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain... See more
John Lysaker • Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas
Hope and Futures thinking
To type "tap" your fingers don't have to trace out the form of the letters — they just make three relatively simple and uniform movements. In comparison, it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross-talk between brain areas, to write than type.
As schools reconsider cursive, research homes in on handwriting's ...
“Can machines be therapists?” is a question receiving increased attention given the relative ease of working with generative artificial intelligence. Although recent (and decades-old) research has found that humans struggle to tell the difference between responses from machines and humans, recent findings suggest that artificial intelligence can... See more
PLOS Mental Health
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The Extended Mind
An exploration of active externalism and the idea that cognitive processes extend beyond the boundaries of the brain and into the environment.
alice.id.tue.nlExtended Mind paper
At its most basic interpretation, then,
the concept of rights for other animals entails a right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and life.
the concept of rights for other animals entails a right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and life.
Corey L Wrenn • Nonhuman Animal Rights
the existence of mindfulness as an innate trait is questionable as mindfulness in the traditional Buddhist terms and, in an applied sense, was developed as a practice; a skill to be developed throughout one's lifetime regardless of one's prevailing psychological phenomena
https://www.academia.edu/17785165/Mindfulness_Literature_Review?email_work_car
... See moreAdverse events were not seen as trauma, nor necessarily as having effects beyond the immediate agitation and subsequent sense making.