Reiterated Concerns and Further Challenges for Mindfulness and Meditation Research: A Reply to Davidson and Dahl

被引：27

作者：

Van Dam, Nicholas T. ^{[1
,2
]}

van Vugt, Marieke K. ^{[3
]}

Vago, David R. ^{[4
,5
]}

Schmalzl, Laura ^{[6
]}

Saron, Clifford D. ^{[7
]}

Olendzki, Andrew ^{[8
]}

Meissner, Ted ^{[9
]}

Lazar, Sara W. ^{[10
]}

Gorchov, Jolie ^{[11
]}

Fox, Kieran C. R. ^{[12
]}

Field, Brent A. ^{[13
]}

Britton, Willoughby B. ^{[14
]}

Brefczynski-Lewis, Julie A. ^{[15
]}

Meyer, David E. ^{[16
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Sch Psychol Sci, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia

[2] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Dept Psychiat, New York, NY 10029 USA

[3] Univ Groningen, Inst Artificial Intelligence & Cognit Engn, Groningen, Netherlands

[4] Vanderbilt Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Psychiat, Osher Ctr Integrat Med, Nashville, TN USA

[5] Vanderbilt Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Phys Med & Rehabil, Osher Ctr Integrat Med, Nashville, TN USA

[6] Southern Calif Univ Hlth Sci, Coll Sci & Integrat Hlth, Whittier, CA USA

[7] Univ Calif Davis, Ctr Mind & Brain, Davis, CA 95616 USA

[8] Integrated Dharma Inst, Amherst, MA USA

[9] Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Ctr Mindfulness, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

[10] Harvard Med Sch, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Boston, MA USA

[11] NYU, Silver Sch Social Work, New York, NY 10003 USA

[12] Stanford Univ, Dept Neurol & Neurol Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[13] Princeton Univ, Princeton Neurosci Inst, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[14] Brown Univ, Warren Alpert Med Sch, Dept Psychiat & Human Behav, Providence, RI 02912 USA

[15] West Virginia Univ, Sch Med, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA

[16] Univ Michigan, Dept Psychol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

来源：

PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 2018年 / 13卷 / 01期

关键词：

mindfulness; meditation; adverse events; questionable research practices; WORLD;

D O I：

10.1177/1745691617727529

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

In response to our article, Davidson and Dahl offer commentary and advice regarding additional topics crucial to a comprehensive prescriptive agenda for future research on mindfulness and meditation. Their commentary raises further challenges and provides an important complement to our article. More consideration of these issues is especially welcome because limited space precluded us from addressing all relevant topics. While we agree with many of Davidson and Dahl's suggestions, the present reply (a) highlights reasons why the concerns we expressed are still especially germane to mindfulness and meditation research (even though those concerns may not be entirely unique) and (b) gives more context to other issues posed by them. We discuss special characteristics of individuals who participate in mindfulness and meditation research and focus on the vulnerability of this field inherent in its relative youthfulness compared to other more mature scientific disciplines. Moreover, our reply highlights the serious consequences of adverse experiences suffered by a significant subset of individuals during mindfulness and other contemplative practices. We also scrutinize common contemporary applications of mindfulness and meditation to illness, and some caveats are introduced regarding mobile technologies for guidance of contemplative practices.

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[1] Outstanding Challenges in Scientific Research on Mindfulness and Meditation
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