Image via WikipediaOK, home from Chicago. That's a long, long drive; Ian and I self-medicated, during the entire stretch of the State of Iowa, with potato chips, coffee, and tea. I won't want another potato chip for quite a while...Today the NYT came out with a pretty nice article (click here) about mindfulness-based interventions in psychotherapy. They provide an accurate accounting of the history and theory behind this type of practice in the treatment of various disorders, and a summary of the research findings, to date. As they accurately state, the published research at this point is in early stages... what is frustrating (not just to me but to all researchers) is that there is a very long lag between the completion of research studies and their ultimate publication. Some fantastic work has been done in the last 2-4 years... and a lot of it is still "in the pipeline," in the process of peer review, or having been reviewed, accepted, and edited, but still waiting in line for actual publication. My own viewpoint (based on what I know of the more recent findings from very well-designed studies, and based also on the fact that more of these studies are getting serious funding and attention), is that the overall picture will be very different five years from now, and we will very likely be seeing some very respectable results out of the empirically-based literature. And I would suggest that there will be substantial movement in the direction of good studies being done, using both quantitative and qualitative designs.
Also today (or last night), Dr. Ginger Rogers published the podcast of the interview that she did with me a week or so ago, also about mindfulness-based stuff, including our own experiences with meditation. UPDATE: click here for the podcast and show notes, and also look at some of her other podcasts: very interesting interviews! Great work, Ginger!
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