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Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Frontiers in Psychology

4 papers

Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT)

Price, Cynthia J., Hooven, Carole
www.frontiersin.org Summary & key facts 2018 388 citations

This paper explains how being aware of internal body signals (called interoceptive awareness) is tied to understanding and managing emotions. It describes a therapy named Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) that teaches three core interoceptive skills—identifying, accessing, and appraising bodily signals—using education and hands-on body work. The authors present…

Action Observation and Synchronization Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy

Peter Payne, Peter A. Levine, Mardi A. Crane‐Godreau
Frontiers in Psychology Summary & key facts 2015 306 citations

This paper explains Somatic Experiencing (SE), a form of trauma therapy that focuses on guiding a person's attention to internal body sensations (like heartbeat, breathing, muscle feeling) instead of mainly talking about thoughts or memories. The authors describe how SE claims these bodily sensations can help complete interrupted defensive responses…

Mental Health and Psychiatry Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Facilitating Adaptive Emotion Processing and Somatic Reappraisal via Sustained Mindful Interoceptive Attention

Price, Cynthia J., Weng, Helen Y.
www.frontiersin.org Summary & key facts 2021 28 citations

The paper proposes a clinical framework that helps people notice and work with body sensations tied to emotions. It calls this mindful interoceptive awareness and says focusing on inner body signals in a sustained, nonjudgmental way can make those sensations clearer and allow a process the authors call somatic reappraisal.…

Pain Management and Placebo Effect Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Interoceptive hunger, eating attitudes and beliefs

Richard J. Stevenson, Brayson J. Hill, Alannah Hughes, Madeline Wright, Johanna Bartlett, Supreet Saluja, et al.
Frontiers in Psychology Summary & key facts 2023 21 citations

Researchers surveyed mainly young university students about how hunger feels just before a main meal and then retested many about 1 month later. They found hunger sensations fit 11 different dimensions, that people differ in which sensations they report, and that those reports were stable over time. Although there was…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
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