Registered Psychotherapist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Faculty of Physiotherapy, Opole Medical School, Opole, Poland.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1113:53-59. doi: 10.1007/5584_2018_167.
This review is an attempt to provide a comprehensive view of post-traumatic-stress disorder (PTSD) and its therapy, focusing on the use of meditation interventions. PTSD is a multimodal psycho-physiological-behavioral disorder, which calls for the potential usefulness of spiritual therapy. Recent times witness a substantial scientific interest in an alternative mind-to-body psychobehavioral therapy; the exemplary of which is meditation. Meditation is a form of mental exercise that has an extensive, albeit still mostly empiric, therapeutic value. Meditation steadily gains an increasing popularity as a psychobehavioral adjunct to therapy in many areas of medicine and psychology. While the review does not provide a final or conclusive answer on the use of meditation in PTSD treatment we believe the available empirical evidence demonstrates that meditation is associated with overall reduction in PTSD symptoms, and it improves mental and somatic quality of life of PTSD patients. Therefore, studies give a clear cue for a trial of meditation-associated techniques as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy or standalone treatment in otherwise resistant cases of the disease.
这篇综述试图提供一个关于创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）及其治疗的全面视角，重点关注冥想干预的应用。PTSD 是一种多模式的心理生理行为障碍，这需要精神治疗的潜在有效性。最近，人们对替代身心心理行为治疗方法产生了浓厚的科学兴趣，冥想就是其中的典范。冥想是一种心理锻炼形式，具有广泛的、尽管仍然主要是经验性的治疗价值。冥想作为一种心理行为辅助疗法，在医学和心理学的许多领域逐渐受到越来越多的欢迎。虽然综述并没有提供关于在 PTSD 治疗中使用冥想的最终或结论性答案，但我们相信现有的经验证据表明，冥想与 PTSD 症状的整体减轻有关，它可以提高 PTSD 患者的心理和躯体生活质量。因此，研究为尝试将冥想相关技术作为药物治疗或单独治疗的辅助手段提供了明确的线索，适用于那些对疾病治疗有抵抗力的病例。
