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ArticlePloS one2024

Mindfulness Teacher Trainees' Experiences (MTTE): An investigation of intense experiences in mindfulness-based interventions.

Erik Jönhagen, Tim Wood, Maria Niemi, Julieta Galante

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Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Erik JönhagenDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4970-1679
Tim WoodContemplative Studies Centre, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0009-0003-7898-2876
Maria NiemiDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5407-6981
Julieta GalanteDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4108-5341
The University of Melbourne · AUKarolinska Institutet · SEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the increasing interest in mindfulness practices within clinical as well as non-clinical settings and the increasing body of research on the positive effects of mindfulness, concerns have been raised that mindfulness might also produce adverse effects including intense experiences and psychosis. The aim of this study was to investigate if intense experiences occur as a natural part of mindfulness practice, and if so to examine the characteristics of such experiences. We conducted a qualitative analysis based on fortnightly meditation reports from 13 mindfulness teacher trainees for 4 months. Intense experiences in meditation were frequently expressed in the reports of most of the practitioners and in some individuals these experiences were similar to psychotic-like experiences. This study presents suggestive evidence that mindfulness practices can produce intense experiences and that for some individuals these intense experiences may resemble psychotic-like experiences.

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MeditationMindfulnessPsychotic DisordersHumans

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PMID38578770
PMCPMC10997133
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