Authors

Han Kutz, Jane Leserman, Claudia Dorrington, Catherine H. Morrison, Joan Z. Borysenko, Herbert Benson

Publication

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

March 31, 1985

43 (4): 209-218

Abstract

The effect of a 10-week meditation program on 20 patients who were undergoing long-term individual explorative psychotherapy was studied. Change in the psychological well-being of the patients and the impact of the program on the process of their psychotherapy was evaluated. Results obtained from the patients’ self-ratings and the therapists’ objective ratings demonstrated a significant and substantial improvement in most measures of psychological well-being.

Web and Email Links

https://karger.com/pps/article-abstra..., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3898186/

Related Listings

A Perspective on the Similarities and Differenc...

Authors

Christina M. Luberto, PhD, Daniel L Hall, PhD, Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH, Aviad Haramati, PhD, Sian Cotton, PhD

Journal

Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health

January 31, 2020

Mindfulness, Benson Technique, Comparisons, Mind-Body Medicine

Mind–body medicine is an evidence-based approach to health and healing that focuses on interactions between the mind, body, and behavior. It encompasses a wide range of interventions that are similar yet different in meaningful ways. Mindfulness and relaxation practices are 2 mind–body techniques that have similarities and differences; however, these techniques are often used or discussed interchangeably, such that the differences between them become obscured. A greater understanding […]

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessor...

Authors

Jeffrey A. Dusek, PhD, Jane B. Sherwood, RN, BSN, Richard Friedman, PhD, Patricia Myers, BA, Charles F. Bethea, MD, Sidney Levitsky, MD, Peter C. Hill, MD, Manoj K. Jain, MD, Stephen L. Kopecky, MD, Paul S. Mueller, MD, Peter Lam, PhD, Herbert Benson, MD, Patricia L. Hibberd, MD, PhD

Journal

American Heart Journal

March 31, 2002

Prayer, Cardiovascular, Cardiac Surgery

Background: The effect of intercessory prayer (IP) on outcome in cardiac cases has been evaluated previously, but results are controversial. The goals of the Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) are to evaluate the effects of receipt of additional study IP and awareness of receipt of additional study IP on outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. STEP is not designed to determine whether God exists or whether God does or does not […]

The Efficacy of the Relaxation Response in Prep...

Authors

Jane Leserman, PhD, Ellen M. Stuart, MS, Mary E. Mamish, BA, Herbert Benson, MD

Journal

Behavioral Medicine

February 28, 1989

Anxiety, Cardiovascular

This study evaluated the efficacy of the relaxation response on the postoperative recovery of 27 cardiac surgery patients randomly assigned to one of two groups. Thirteen experimental group patients received educational information and practiced eliciting the relaxation response before and after surgery. The 14 patients in the control group received only information. Experimental and control groups were compared before and after surgery on both physiological and psychological recovery […]