Paul Biegler
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015493
- eISBN:
- 9780262295628
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015493.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter focuses on how the impairment of autonomy in depressed patients can be addressed by two validated treatments, namely, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication ...
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This chapter focuses on how the impairment of autonomy in depressed patients can be addressed by two validated treatments, namely, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication (ADM). Both treatments deal with negative information-processing biases but in different ways. CBT counters negative biases by requiring the individual to understand the action of negative biases; ADM, on the other hand, requires no such comprehension. Negative affect, even when occurring in depression, retains utility in that it helps mark events of material significance. A person treated with CBT can better identify significant events and more accurately assess them through a residual appraisal function left by depression. Although ADM limits the amplitude of negative affective swings, CBT promotes the autonomy of the depressed person to a greater extent than does treatment with ADM alone.Less
This chapter focuses on how the impairment of autonomy in depressed patients can be addressed by two validated treatments, namely, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication (ADM). Both treatments deal with negative information-processing biases but in different ways. CBT counters negative biases by requiring the individual to understand the action of negative biases; ADM, on the other hand, requires no such comprehension. Negative affect, even when occurring in depression, retains utility in that it helps mark events of material significance. A person treated with CBT can better identify significant events and more accurately assess them through a residual appraisal function left by depression. Although ADM limits the amplitude of negative affective swings, CBT promotes the autonomy of the depressed person to a greater extent than does treatment with ADM alone.
Yaroslav Komarovski
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190244958
- eISBN:
- 9780190245009
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190244958.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism, World Religions
This chapter addresses several Buddhist path models. It explains the interdependent nature of different types of path-related training and conditioning and the experiences and realizations they aim ...
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This chapter addresses several Buddhist path models. It explains the interdependent nature of different types of path-related training and conditioning and the experiences and realizations they aim at bringing about. In particular, it explores the negative process of deconstruction of conceptual thinking, designed for achieving realization of ultimate reality. It argues that although realization of reality is similar to other mystical experiences in certain ways, what makes it unique is that it consists of negations, not affirmations. It also introduces a distinction between the “practical” level, which pertains to realization of reality and deconstructive contemplative processes leading to it, and the “descriptive” level, which pertains to the articulation of that realization, its “objects,” and its triggering processes. It argues that while the two levels are interrelated, different ways of describing realizations of reality and deconstructive processes leading to them do not necessarily indicate differences in those realizations and processes.Less
This chapter addresses several Buddhist path models. It explains the interdependent nature of different types of path-related training and conditioning and the experiences and realizations they aim at bringing about. In particular, it explores the negative process of deconstruction of conceptual thinking, designed for achieving realization of ultimate reality. It argues that although realization of reality is similar to other mystical experiences in certain ways, what makes it unique is that it consists of negations, not affirmations. It also introduces a distinction between the “practical” level, which pertains to realization of reality and deconstructive contemplative processes leading to it, and the “descriptive” level, which pertains to the articulation of that realization, its “objects,” and its triggering processes. It argues that while the two levels are interrelated, different ways of describing realizations of reality and deconstructive processes leading to them do not necessarily indicate differences in those realizations and processes.
