Meditation based therapies-a systematic review and some critical observations

Religions

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Fjorback, Lone Overby ^a   Walach, Harald ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mindfulness meditation; Mindfulness based cognitive therapy; Mindfulness based stress reduction; Randomized controlled trials; Sense of meaning; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859033942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rel3010001     Document Type: Review

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