Don't Forget Your Body: Mindfulness, Embodiment, and the Treatment of Depression

Mindfulness

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 190-199

  Michalak, Johannes ^a   Burg, Jan ^b   Heidenreich, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c ESSLINGEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive therapy; Embodiment; Major depression; Mindfulness; Relapse prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865803402     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-012-0107-4     Document Type: Article

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