Defying the Risk of Criticizing Mindfulness Research and Practice
Why a guest post from Substack writer Psychology Best Practice Newsletter was very brave: The Problem with Mindfulness What the research REALLY say.s
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I was so pleased that Psychology Best Practice Newsletter wrote a freshly detailed critique of the scientific status of mindfulness, The Problem with Mindfulness What the research REALLY says, and then agreed that I could repost it in the CoyneoftheRealm newsletter.
Her “sincere hope” preamble says it all.
It’s my sincere hope that these articles will help bring together a community of truly scientific psychologists and counsellors (and clinical researchers) and that together we can be at least somewhat successful in driving false therapies out of clinical practice, and replace them with far more strongly scientifically verified strategies and processes.
Today we attack … mindfulness.
Substack does not have to be just a platform for writing articles, it can become a safe community for independently-minded skeptics to critically examine the evidence for the strength of therapeutic practices like mindfulness and announce their findings.
The widespread promotion …