Mindfulness and clinical psychology
1Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS Trust, UK.
Psychology and Psychotherapy
|August 21, 2012
Summary
Mindfulness provides psychology with more than therapy; it establishes presence, linking to phenomenology and offering a method for investigating non-conceptual experience. This deepens clinical practice and research.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Mind
Background:
- Mindfulness is widely used as a therapeutic technique.
- Phenomenology offers a framework for understanding subjective experience.
- There is a need to explore the non-conceptual underpinnings of consciousness.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore mindfulness beyond its therapeutic applications.
- To connect mindfulness practice with phenomenological inquiry.
- To investigate the potential of mindfulness for understanding everyday experience.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis linking mindfulness and phenomenology.
- Argument for mindfulness as a systematic method for psychological investigation.
- Illustration of implications for clinical practice.
Main Results:
- Mindfulness can establish a state of presence.
- Mindfulness is linked to the Western intellectual tradition of phenomenology.
- Mindfulness offers a systematic method for investigating the non-conceptual basis of experience.
Conclusions:
- Mindfulness offers a valuable theoretical and methodological contribution to psychology.
- The integration of mindfulness and phenomenology has implications for clinical psychology.
- Mindfulness can enhance descriptive approaches, qualitative research, and reflective practice.
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