{"title":"Dhikr as Mindfulness: Meditative Remembrance in Sufism","authors":"Marc Applebaum","doi":"10.1177/00221678231206901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231206901","url":null,"abstract":"Mindfulness practices adapted from Theravada Buddhism have become widespread among many in Western societies who seek stress reduction and greater present-centeredness. Less well-known is the mindfulness practice in Sufism–the mystical path of Islam–known as meditative remembrance ( dhikr). While mindfulness is often understood as a self-help technique, the aim of Buddhist and Sufi meditative paths is not limited to enhancing the well-being of a self that is envisioned as strictly bounded. Rather, both meditative paths aim at unitive mystical experience, which is held to profoundly transform the meaning of the practitioner’s selfhood as such. Whereas Buddhism’s non-self-doctrine is generally understood to hold that personal selfhood is an illusion, this is not the case for Akbari Sufism. This inquiry takes a phenomenological approach, exploring the varied meanings of being or “having” a self in the context of mindfulness, and contrasting these with the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow. I contrast Theravada and Akbari Sufism’s understandings of the aim of meditation and the meanings of selfhood and compare both traditions with Abraham Maslow’s view of self-transcendence.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mindfulness and the Paradoxes in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology","authors":"Ingeborg van den Bold","doi":"10.1177/00221678231205003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231205003","url":null,"abstract":"Although some claim that phenomenology and mindfulness have much in common, others hold that these comparisons are based on a flawed understanding of Husserl’s phenomenological reduction. This article addresses the debate on the alleged similarities and differences between phenomenology and mindfulness practice. It first illustrates the differences by contrasting a pair of key ideas in Husserl’s philosophy and in Kabat-Zinn’s conception of mindfulness, respectively, that appear to be similar, but turn out to be quite different: the natural attitude versus the mind’s natural tendency. A Merleau-Pontian turn is then proposed, away from Husserl’s philosophy, toward the paradoxes which Merleau-Ponty regards as inherent to the phenomenological reduction and the phenomenon of expression. This article claims that it is not so much the phenomenological reduction as such that resembles mindfulness practice, but that a more helpful comparison can be found in their shared paradoxes: the paradox of productive unachievability and the paradox of expression. In the end, it is discussed how these shared paradoxes matter for the debate on phenomenology and mindfulness.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135804016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Constitution of Death Valence as a Key to Intervene in Social Discrimination","authors":"Mel Stiller","doi":"10.1177/00221678231205611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231205611","url":null,"abstract":"According to terror and meaning management theories, positive death valence might facilitate psychosocial intervention in social discrimination. The present theoretical article investigates the constitution of death valence with the objective to indicate key factors for a more radical, intersectional intervention in social discrimination. Basing on foundational works and recent research, I conclude that the automatic expectation of death need fulfillment constitutes death valence. Five death needs are detected: agency, belonging, dignity, hope, and meaning. I then outline how the expectation of death need fulfillment may depend on death culture, with a special focus on the United States. Emotional death proximity is a necessary first step to perceive death needs and to contrast them with the cultural possibilities to fulfill them. Thus, psychosocial intervention in social discrimination may be improved by incorporating the key factors of positive death valence: emotional death proximity, death needs, and death culture.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessamyn Moxie, Casey M. Mesaeh, J. Kevin Benson, Miguel Wilson, Laura D. Williams
{"title":"Clocks, Mirrors, Plants: Processes of Gender Shifts Among Adults During COVID-19","authors":"Jessamyn Moxie, Casey M. Mesaeh, J. Kevin Benson, Miguel Wilson, Laura D. Williams","doi":"10.1177/00221678231205336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231205336","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic created social disruptions and catalyzed gender shifts for some individuals. The Gender Identity Development Framework describes the domains of gender and processes by which individuals develop their gender identity. We examine this framework’s elements among adults in North Carolina who reported gender identity changes during the pandemic. We conducted 25 photo-elicitation interviews in which interviews were prompted by participants’ photographs. Using content and thematic analyses, our team analyzed both photos and interviews. We found media, self-reflection, and feedback to be major elements of navigating one’s gender identity shifts that were affected by the pandemic. More pandemic-specific components included the prevalence of Zoom and remote work, more time to oneself, and masks. Our research highlights key themes and elements of gender identity development during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeno Franco, Katinka Hooyer, Leslie Ruffalo, Rae Anne Frey-Ho Fung, Mark Flower, Jeffrey Whittle
{"title":"Foreword to the Second Volume of the Special Issue on Veteran Community Engagement","authors":"Zeno Franco, Katinka Hooyer, Leslie Ruffalo, Rae Anne Frey-Ho Fung, Mark Flower, Jeffrey Whittle","doi":"10.1177/00221678231204932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231204932","url":null,"abstract":"Veteran community engagement is an evolving discipline informed by traditional community-based participatory research, veteran studies, and veterans themselves. This Special Issue suggests that research collaborations including military veterans, soldiers, and their families as co-researchers is a critical next step toward a design thinking perspective in social and healthcare systems for this population. This Special Issue was conceptualized through a veteran community-academic partnership formed over a decade ago. This partnership hosted several Warrior Summit conferences from 2013 to present, with the last of this series calling for academic contributions. The resulting papers drawn from the conference and other authors form this issue, and include a wide range of topics: veteran microdosing and psychedelic self-medication; a historical view of the impact of education exchange between U.S. and South Korean military nurses; strategies for engaging veterans in research of a theater-based intervention for PTSD; interprofessional approaches to addressing veteran identity considerations through collaborations between chaplain service and psychologists in the VA Healthcare System; an international perspective exploring a community collaborative with veterans in Montréal, Canada; efforts to build long-term and sustainable models for veteran engagement in health services research; community-engaged strategies to address veteran homelessness within broader housing stability efforts; and examining the role of veteran peer mentorship programs in alcohol recovery. These projects represent an emerging movement and offer a multidisciplinary roadmap toward honoring veterans voices in research, clinical services, and program development.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feasibility and acceptability study of risk reduction approach for stroke prevention in primary care in Western India.","authors":"Vikas Dhikav, Nisha Bhati, Pankaj Kumar","doi":"10.25259/JNRP_35_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/JNRP_35_2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Stroke is among the leading cause of morbidity and mortality and prevention is the need of the hour. Risk assessment of stroke could be done at primary care. A study was hence planned to assess if an information, education, and communication (IEC) intervention module could be used to address risk factors of stroke among attendees of primary care in Western India.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Patients (>30 years) attending primary care center were enrolled (<i>n</i> = 215). Knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) questionnaire was administered at baseline and end line, and detailed diagnosis (hypertension and/diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, etc.) was noted from written records. A predesigned IEC module was administered about stroke, risk factors, and their prevention. Body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio were taken before and after 16 weeks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 215 participants (M: F = 85:130; mean age = 51.66 ± 13.32 years) had risk factors such as hypertension (26.7%), diabetes (32.5%), history of stroke (<i>n</i> = 3; = 1.39%), and 7.4% (16/215) had coronary artery disease. Before and after comparison of KAP scores indicated significant difference (62.23 ± 19.73 vs. 75.32 ± 13.03); <i>P</i> ≤ 0.0001). Change of waist-to-hip ratio occurred from baseline 0.91-0.9 (<i>P</i> ≤ 0.001). Comparison of the proportion of patients taking antihypertensives before and after IEC intervention was statistically significant (<i>P</i> < 0.05), indicating improvement in drug compliance. BMI comparison changed marginally (26.5 ± 4.7 vs. 26.2 ± 4.5) before and after but was not significant (<i>P</i> ≥ 0.05). The intervention was found to be feasible and acceptable.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>IEC intervention appears to be a low-cost, feasible, and acceptable implementation model for addressing risk factors for stroke in primary care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"21 1","pages":"698-702"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10696315/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86856987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Tom Greening Tributes","authors":"Sarah R. Kamens","doi":"10.1177/00221678231192823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231192823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There’s a Grief Loose in This House: A Tribute to Tom Greening","authors":"L. Xochitl Vallejos","doi":"10.1177/00221678231195107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231195107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135535518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depression and Mindfulness: Reclaiming the Past, Present, and Future","authors":"Angelos Sofocleous","doi":"10.1177/00221678231197870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231197870","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the temporal disturbances experienced in depression and the potential effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions in addressing these disturbances. Drawing upon a Husserlian framework, this article examines the three temporal phases of experience: retention, primal impression, and protention. These phases constitute the temporal fusion that allows us to perceive an event as a temporally extended event, encompassing the past, present, and future. In depression, the sense of anticipation and the belief in the potential for positive change are diminished, leading to a perception of the future as static and unchangeable, hence resembling the past. Depressed individuals also encounter disruptions in their experience of the past, as past thoughts resurface in consciousness at the present moment, further hindering the individuals’ ability to conceive of an open future where things could improve in meaningful ways. Mindfulness-based interventions offer a pathway for detachment from rumination and restoration of the perception of the present and future as contingent and filled with possibilities. By focusing on the present moment and cultivating awareness of experiences in each present “now,” individuals can experience the present as fused with the past and the future.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135538394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanistic Psychology, Daoism, and TongXin","authors":"Xu Jinsheng","doi":"10.1177/00221678231201898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231201898","url":null,"abstract":"This article assesses the accuracy of and limitations of Maslow’s and Rogers’ understanding and application of Daoist thought. First, Maslow’s articulation of Daoist objectivity in his writings on humanistic science and psychotherapy is analyzed, along with the relationship between Rogers’ three principles of psychotherapy and Daoist philosophy. To further explore the relationship between humanistic psychology and Daoism, the author briefly introduces his proposed TongXin triad, 1 a theory that advances Maslow’s understanding of Daoism and also incorporates Rogers’ three principles of psychotherapy.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135579388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}