Constructing a liberated and modern mind: six pathways from pathology to euthymia

Hayes, Steven C.

doi:10.1002/wps.20715

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“…These new concepts all focus on how the person relates to emotion, in such areas as the openness to affect, the willingness to deepen experience, and the importance of learning from emotional experience 62 . The most frequently supported is acceptance 82,84,85 -the willingness to experience affect without needless escape, avoidance or constraint. Far from resignation, acceptance implies an active embrace of experience and learning from the content of affective events.…”

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“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry

2021

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For decades, cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBTs) have been tested in randomized controlled trials for specific psychiatric syndromes that were assumed to represent expressions of latent diseases. Although these protocols were more effective as compared to psychological control conditions, placebo treatments, and even active pharmacotherapies, further advancement in efficacy and dissemination has been inhibited by a failure to focus on processes of change. This picture appears now to be evolving, due both to a collapse of the idea that mental disorders can be classified into distinct, discrete categories, and to the more central attention given to processes of change in newer, so-called "third-wave" CBTs.Here we review the context for this historic progress and evaluate the impact of these newer methods and models, not as protocols for treating syndromes, but as ways of targeting an expanded range of processes of change. Five key features of "third-wave" therapies are underlined: a focus on context and function; the view that new models and methods should build on other strands of CBT; a focus on broad and flexible repertoires vs. an approach to signs and symptoms; applying processes to the clinician, not just the client; and expanding into more complex issues historically more characteristic of humanistic, existential, analytic, or system-oriented approaches. We argue that these newer methods can be considered in the context of an idiographic approach to process-based functional analysis. Psychological processes of change can be organized into six dimensions: cognition, affect, attention, self, motivation and overt behavior. Several important processes of change combine two or more of these dimensions. Tailoring intervention strategies to target the appropriate processes in a given individual would be a major advance in psychiatry and an important step toward precision mental health care.

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2021

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“…So-called “divergent thinking” ( 157 ) and cognitive persistence (the persistent exploration of combinations of associations) have been identified as key factors constituting the creative process ( 158 ), and a link between cognitive flexibility, divergent thinking, and creativity has been made before ( 159 – 163 ). There is some empirical evidence ( 91 , 164 – 166 ) and conceptual work ( 167 – 170 ) linking psychedelics with the promotion of aspects of the creative process.…”

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Does Psychedelic Therapy Have a Transdiagnostic Action and Prophylactic Potential?

2021

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Addressing global mental health is a major 21st-century challenge. Current treatments have recognized limitations; in this context, new ones that are prophylactic and effective across diagnostic boundaries would represent a major advance. The view that there exists a core of transdiagnostic overlap between psychiatric disorders has re-emerged in recent years, and evidence that psychedelic therapy holds promise for a range of psychiatric disorders supports the position that it may be transdiagnostically effective. Here, we propose that psychedelic therapy's core, transdiagnostically relevant action lies in its ability to increase neuronal and mental plasticity, thus enhancing the potential for change, which we consider to be a key to its therapeutic benefits. Moreover, we suggest that enhanced plasticity via psychedelics, combined with a psychotherapeutic approach, can aid healthy adaptability and resilience, which are protective factors for long-term well-being. We present candidate neurological and psychological markers of this plasticity and link them with a predictive processing model of the action of psychedelics. We propose that a model of psychedelic-induced plasticity combined with an adequate therapeutic context has prophylactic and transdiagnostic potential, implying that it could have a broad, positive impact on public health.

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“…“Self-connection” is rooted in the awareness of oneself, and the acceptance and alignment of behavior based on that awareness (e.g., Klussman, 2021 ). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), for example, utilizes mindfulness, acceptance, awareness and value-based action (i.e., behavioral alignment) to bring about a more connected (transcendent) self (Edwards et al, 2019 ; Hayes, 2019 ). We further suggest that self-connected individuals will display stronger mind-body integration, indexed through higher levels of vagal function.…”

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The Complex Construct of Wellbeing and the Role of Vagal Function

Wilkie

Fisher

Kemp

2022

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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Constructing a liberated and modern mind: six pathways from pathology to euthymia

Cited by 26 publications

References 7 publications

“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry

“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry

Does Psychedelic Therapy Have a Transdiagnostic Action and Prophylactic Potential?

The Complex Construct of Wellbeing and the Role of Vagal Function

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