An analysis of recent meditation research and suggestions for future directions.
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Meditation offers a rich and complex field of study. Over the past 40 years, several hundred research studies have demonstrated numerous significant findings including changes in psychological, physiological, and transpersonal realms. This paper attempts to summarize these findings, and to review more recent meditation research. We then suggest directions for future research, emphasizing the necessity to continue to expand the paradigm from which meditation research is conducted, from a predominantly re‐ductionistic, biomedical model to one which includes subjective and transpersonal domains and an integral perspective.
Source: The Humanistic Psychologist
Authors: Shauna L. Shapiro, Roger Walsh
Institutions: University of Arizona, University of California, Irvine
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1976237813