Assessment of fear of fear in agoraphobics: The Body Sensations Questionnaire and the Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire.

1984 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1090-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne L. Chambless ◽  
G. Craig Caputo ◽  
Priscilla Bright ◽  
Richard Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Sensations

scholarly journals Fear of body symptoms and sensations in patients with panic disorders and patients with somatic diseases

2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 659-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Latas ◽  
Danilo Obradovic ◽  
Marina Pantic
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
General Population ◽  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Somatic Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Body Sensations ◽  
High Level

Introduction. A cognitive model of aetiology of panic disorder assumes that people who experience frequent panic attacks have tendencies to catastrophically interpret normal and benign somatic sensations - as signs of serious illness. This arise the question: is this cognition specific for patients with panic disorder and in what intensity it is present in patients with serious somatic illness and in healthy subjects. Objective. The aim of the study was to ascertain the differences in the frequency and intensity of 'catastrophic' cognitions related to body sensations, and to ascertain the differences in the frequency and intensity of anxiety caused by different body sensations all related to three groups of subjects: a sample of patients with panic disorder, a sample of patients with history of myocardial infarction and a sample of healthy control subjects from general population. Methods. Three samples are observed in the study: A) 53 patients with the diagnosis of panic disorder; B) 25 patients with history of myocardial infarction; and C) 47 healthy controls from general population. The catastrophic cognitions were assessed by the Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire (ACQ) and the Body Sensations Questionnaire (BSQ). These questionnaires assess the catastrophic thoughts associated with panic and agoraphobia (ACQ) and the fear of body sensations (BSQ). All study subjects answered questionnaires items, and the scores of the answers were compared among the groups. Results. The results of the study suggest that: 1) There is no statistical difference in the tendency to catastrophically interpret body sensations and therefore to induce anxiety in the samples of healthy general population and patients with history of myocardial infarction; 2) The patients with panic disorder have a statistically significantly more intensive tendency to catastrophically interpret benign somatic symptoms and therefore to induce a high level of anxiety in comparison to the sample of patients with the history of serious somatic illness (myocardial infarction) and the sample of healthy general population. Conclusion. The tendency to catastrophically interpret benign somatic symptoms and therefore to induce a high level of anxiety in patients with panic disorder, confirms the cognitive aetiology model of panic disorder and suggests that it should be the focus of prophylactic and therapeutic management of patients with panic disorder.

The Cakras in Transpersonal Psychotherapy

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
John Prendergast
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Kundalini Yoga ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Indian Tradition ◽  
Transpersonal Psychotherapy ◽  
Body Sensations ◽  
Tantra Yoga

The Indian tradition of Tantra-Yoga and Kundalini-Yoga describes seven major cakras ("discs/wheels"): subtle energy centers in the body that govern different domains of human experience ranging from physical survival to spiritual illumination. After twenty years of direct personal and clinical experience with the cakras, I have come to believe that they offer a remarkable conceptual and perceptual map of the psychospiritual process and play a vital, though often unrecognized, role in psychotherapy. It appears to me that psychotherapy knowingly or unknowingly involves the cakras and that awareness of them facilitates the process of personal transformation,allowing clients to gradually open to their transpersonal depths. In this article I will demonstrate the relevance of the cakras to the practice oftranspersonal psychotherapy and offer some suggestions as to how therapists and clients can consciously work with them. Using the cakrasrequires an ability to focus on subtle body sensations and to understand their meaning, a capacity that many therapists and clients already have. Knowledge of and experience with the cakras help to bridge psychology and spirituality,enriching our understanding of transpersonal psychotherapy and helping to ground it in the body.

Modification of the Body Sensations Interpretation Questionnaire (BSIQ-M): validity and reliability

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Austin ◽  
Jeffrey C. Richards ◽  
Britt Klein
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Body Sensations

scholarly journals Meditative Attention to Bodily Sensations: Conscious Attention without Selection?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kranti Saran
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Background Structure ◽  
First Case ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Body Sensations ◽  
Conscious Attention

Prominent figures in the philosophical literature on attention hold that the connection between attention and selection is essential (Mole, 2011), necessary (Wu, 2011; 2014), or conceptual (Smithies, 2011). I argue that selection is neither essentially, necessarily, nor conceptually tied to attention. I first isolate the target conception of selection that I deny is so tightly coupled with attention: graded intramodal selection within consciousness. I analyse two visual cases: analysis of the first case shows that there can be attention without a connection to tasks or action; analysis of the second case shows that there can be attention without a phenomenal foreground/background structure. Finally, I extend the argument into the domain of the body by considering a form of meditative absorption in body sensations to recapitulate the conclusions drawn from the two visual cases.

Awareness of Physical Sensations

2017 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Jill Ehrenreich-May ◽  
Sarah M. Kennedy ◽  
Jamie A. Sherman ◽  
Shannon M. Bennett ◽  
David H. Barlow
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Scanning ◽  
Flight Response ◽  
Body Sensations ◽  
Fight Or Flight Response ◽  
Fight Or Flight

Chapter 4 focuses on the connection between body sensations and strong emotions. Many times the body provides clues that tell us when we experiencing those strong emotions. These sensations are part of the fight-or-flight response, and adolescent clients will learn how the body reacts to such feelings of threat or concerns about harm and what to do if they notice these things at times when they are not truly in danger. Clients learn to use body scanning to become more aware of their body clues. Clients practice experiencing body clues without doing something to make them go away.

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