Meditation as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 43 (4) , 209-218
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000287881
Abstract
The effect of a 10-week meditation program on 20 patients who were undergoing long-term individual explorative psychotherapy was studied. Change in the psychological well-being of the patients and the impact of the program on the process of their psychotherapy was evaluated. Results obtained from the patients’ self-ratings and the therapists’ objective ratings demonstrated a significant and substantial improvement in most measures of psychological well-being.Keywords
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