Integrating Metta Into CBT: How Loving Kindness and Compassion Meditation Can Enhance CBT for Treating Anxiety and Depression

Integrating Metta Into CBT: How Loving Kindness and Compassion Meditation Can Enhance CBT for Treating Anxiety and Depression

[Background] Loving kindness meditation and compassion meditation are traditional Buddhist practices that have recently been introduced and investigated in psychotherapy with promising results. Both meditation practices emphasize metta, a mental state of positive energy and kindness towards oneself...

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Main Authors: Simona Stefan, Stefan G. Hofmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2019-09-01
Series:Clinical Psychology in Europe
Subjects:
meditation
cbt
depression
anxiety
loving kindness
compassion
Online Access:https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/2529

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